Lab Corp no longer offering <10 PCR.

[orleans]

Scared the c**p outa me for sure. As most of you know I dropped the RIBA a few weeks ago. Well I did a PCR, checking on break thru. When I called my lab lady she read the results saying "<43" HCV RNA not detected." I'm LIKE, what's this <43?? She doesn't know, she said it was the same test we've been doing from the start which is the 10 to 100,000,000 . (been UND <10 from week 2) Of course I'm thinking of the confusion during the Telaprivir trials and others. Well I'm a LITTLE worried at this point so she starts making calls trying to find something out. That was yesterday, got the word this morn. Lab Crop has stopped the 10-100,000,000 and in it's place is using a 43-69,000,000. The L.Corp lady told my lady that they considered this test more reliable and consistant. I am still UND. jerry

[Rockerforlife]

IU: International Unit (1 IU = 2.5 VL Copies apx )


http://www.medhelp.org/health_pages/Hepatitis/Common-Hepatitis-C-Acronyms/show/3?cid=65

[jmjm530]

Sorry, that should have been "Jean-Michel Pawlotsky"

[jmjm530]

Have to run but here's the citation:

Hepatology, Volume 32 Issue 3 , Pages 453 - 680 (September 2000)

Standardization of Hepatitis C Virus RNA Quantification
Jean-Michel Pawlotski (and others)

[jmjm530]

Maybe the url is breaking up.  I condensed it here. Let me know if it works, if not I'll copy down the citations. Good to see you dropping in from time to time.

http://tinyurl.com/cb8vn7

[Hepatitis Researcher]

Sorry link does not work. You have authors, title?

[jmjm530]

I think he may have been referring to the Superquant test mentioned frequently in this paper.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/106596948/PDFSTART?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0