NIH共同发展专家小组主席、得克萨斯大学Galveston医学部的Donald Powell指出:丙型肝炎病毒(HCV)为RNA病毒,属黄病毒家族成员,已证明至少存在6种基因型和数种血清型,但对其损害靶器官——肝脏的原理了解甚少。据CDC统计,美国约有400万HCV患者,而且每年将近3万人被感染,约8000人死于此病。目前,可利用酶联免疫测定法(EIA)、重组免疫印迹实验和几种PCR方法检测HCV及其组分。尽管目前以RT-PCR方法最为敏 Donald Powell, MD, from the Galveston Medical Division of the University of Texas at Dallas, said that hepatitis C virus (HCV), a member of the flavivirus family and a member of the flavivirus family, has been shown to have at least 6 genotypes and several serotypes, Damage to target organs - the principle of the liver little understood. According to the CDC, there are about 4 million HCV patients in the United States, and nearly 30,000 people are infected and about 8,000 die each year. Enzyme-linked immunoassay (EIA), recombinant immunoblotting and several PCR methods are currently available to detect HCV and its components. Although the most sensitive method is RT-PCR