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Table 2 Intra-person and inter-person reproducibility of in-house anti-HCV screening assay

From: Expression of core antigen of HCV genotype 3a and its evaluation as screening agent for HCV infection in Pakistan

 

Intra-person reproducibility

Inter-person reproducibility

Anti-HCV

Mean OD ± S.D

CV (%)

Mean OD ± S.D.

CV (%)

Positive (n = 200)

0.860 ± 0.042

4.88

0.859 ± 0.051

5.93

Negative (n = 200)

0.17 ± 0.010

5.88

0.160 ± 0.011

6.87

  1. Mean optical densities (OD), standard deviations (SD) and co-efficient of variations (CV) of an established panel of HCV positive and negative sera are shown depicting high reproducibity.