{"id":9577,"date":"2016-06-27T18:56:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T21:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2016-06-27T18:56:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T21:56:58","slug":"new-test-allows-for-one-step-diagnosis-of-hcv-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/2016\/06\/27\/new-test-allows-for-one-step-diagnosis-of-hcv-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"New test allows for one-step diagnosis of HCV infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now researchers have developed a novel enzyme immunoassay that accomplishes screening and diagnosis in one simple and affordable step.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<em>Hepatology<\/em>\u00a0study that included 365 blood specimens, the assay was highly sensitive and specific for HCV infection.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abChronic HCV infection affects approximately 170 million individuals worldwide and is associated with risk of progression to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma,\u00bb the authors wrote. \u00abAlthough health professional practice guidelines advocate screening for HCV infection, recent studies indicated a significant deficit in screening and diagnosis of HCV infection.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/PressRelease\/pressReleaseId-125962.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wiley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now researchers have developed a novel enzyme immunoassay that accomplishes screening and diagnosis in one simple and affordable step. In a\u00a0Hepatology\u00a0study that included 365 blood specimens, the assay was highly sensitive and specific for HCV infection. \u00abChronic HCV infection affects approximately 170 million individuals worldwide and is associated with risk of progression to cirrhosis and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2620,"featured_media":9578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"summary_large_image","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[655],"tags":[8384,10488,4751,7885,10490,7869,10492],"class_list":["post-9577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias-ingles","tag-diagnosis","tag-enzyme-immunoassay","tag-guideline","tag-hcv-infection","tag-health-professional","tag-hepatitis-c-virus-hcv","tag-test"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9579,"href":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions\/9579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infobioquimica.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}