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Ultrastructural study of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with occult hepatitis C infection /

Fatma Alzahraa Mohamed Helmy

Ultrastructural study of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with occult hepatitis C infection / دراسة بالميكروسكوب الإلكترونى لخلايا الدم البيضاء أحادية النواة فى مرضى التهاب الكبد الوبائى المستتر Fatma Alzahraa Mohamed Helmy ; Supervised Nermeen Ahmed Eldesoukey , Lobna Yousif Ghanem, Eman Abdelmohsen - Cairo : Fatma Alzahraa Mohamed Helmy , 2012 - 118P. : facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology

Occult HCV infection (OCI) is a form of chronic HCV infection that is characterized by the presence of genomic HCV RNA in liver and PBMCs in the absence of serum HCV RNA . The persistence of viral replication in occult HCV infection is considered as a putative source of infection among family members and patients undergoing invasive procedures , transfusion or transplantation



Hepatitis C virus Interferon responders Occult hepatitis C