Prospective Multicenter Clinical Evaluation of AMPLICOR and COBAS AMPLICOR Hepatitis C Virus Tests

Surveillance for waterborne-disease outbreaks--United States, 1993-1994.

1996 • 2,061 citations

Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection and HCV-Related Chronic Disease

1998 • 1,246 citations

Use of uracil DNA glycosylase to control carry-over contamination in polymerase chain reactions

1990 • 953 citations

EASL International Consensus Conference on Hepatitis C Paris, 26–28 February 1999

1999 • 704 citations

National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Panel statement: Management of hepatitis C

1997 • 572 citations

Persistence of viremia and the importance of long-term follow-up after acute hepatitis C infection

1999 • 490 citations

Diagnosis and Monitoring of Hepatic Injury. II. Recommendations for Use of Laboratory Tests in Screening, Diagnosis, and Monitoring

2000 • 429 citations

Sequence analysis of the core gene of 14 hepatitis C virus genotypes.

1994 • 315 citations

Importance of primer selection for the detection of hepatitis C virus RNA with the polymerase chain reaction assay.

1992 • 275 citations

EASL International Consensus Conference on Hepatitis C

1999 • 261 citations

Quantitation of hepatitis C virus RNA in serum of asymptomatic blood donors and patients with type C chronic liver disease

1993 • 185 citations

Quantification of the initial decline of serum hepatitis c virus RNA and response to interferon alfa

1998 • 171 citations

Improved Version 2.0 Qualitative and Quantitative AMPLICOR Reverse Transcription-PCR Tests for Hepatitis C Virus RNA: Calibration to International Units, Enhanced Genotype Reactivity, and Performance Characteristics

2000 • 157 citations

Detection of Residual Hepatitis C Virus RNA by Transcription-Mediated Amplification in Patients With Complete Virologic Response According to Polymerase Chain Reaction–Based Assays

2000 • 143 citations

Use of aminotransferase, hepatitis C antibody, and hepatitis C polymerase chain reaction RNA assays to establish the diagnosis of hepatitis C virus infection in a diagnostic virology laboratory

1992 • 118 citations

EASL International Consensus Conference on Hepatitis C. Paris, 26-28, February 1999, Consensus Statement. European Association for the Study of the Liver.

1999 • 112 citations

International collaborative study on the second EUROHEP HCV-RNA reference panel

1996 • 111 citations

Multigene Tracking of Hepatitis C Virus Quasispecies after Liver Transplantation: Correlation of Genetic Diversification in the Envelope Region with Asymptomatic or Mild Disease Patterns

1998 • 92 citations

Second Generation of the Automated Cobas Amplicor HCV Assay Improves Sensitivity of Hepatitis C Virus RNA Detection and Yields Results That Are More Clinically Relevant

1999 • 84 citations

Detection of hepatitis C virus RNA: comparison of one-stage polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with nested-set PCR

1993 • 63 citations

Natural fluctuations of hepatitis C viral load in a homogeneous patient population: A prospective study

2000 • 49 citations

Blood Screening by Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology: Current Issues, Future Challenges

2000 • 49 citations

Blood Screening by Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology: Current Issues, Future Challenges

2000 • 31 citations

Comparison of HCV RNA assays for the detection and quantification of hepatitis C virus RNA levels in serum of patients with chronic hepatitis C treated with interferon

1997 • 26 citations