What is a direct test for the hepatitis C virus?
You draw blood to check for hepatitis C antibody and HCV RNA test. If HCV antibody is positive then you had the infection sometimes in the past. If HCV RNA test is positive then you have an active infection.For most people exposed to HCV infection, the antibody test will become positive in 4–10 weeks. About 97% of infected people will have a positive antibody test in 6 months.
Hepatitis C test results and their meanings.?
My best friend donated blood and they sent her a certified letter back with the following HCV results... Virus antibody ( anti HCV) screen: Reactive/Negative Reference Range Virus antibody supplemental test: Reactive/Negative Reference Range Virus Nucleic Acid test (NAT): Reactive/Negative Reference Range Showed reactive on all three test, yet negative on all reference ranges as well. I understand she is infected, but what does the reference range mean? Thanks.
I had a hepatitis c ab test and i don't know how to read the results can someone help?
Congratulations! Your Hepatitis C test is negative. Your Hepatitis A test is also negative which means that you've never had it and can get it in the future. Your Hepatitis B test showed you've never had it but you also don't have any immunity. Ask your doctor about getting vaccines for Hep A and Hep B (there's no vaccine for Hep C). As of early 2006, at most laboratories in the U.S., the official "normal" Thyroid test (tsh) is now from .5 to 5.0 So yours is normal.
Question about interpreting Hepatitis C results?
I went in to have a Hepatitis C Antibody test done and this is what was on the paper: Hepatitis C Ab (IgC): Nonreactive Signal to Cutoff (Hep C) is 0.06 less than 1.00 ratio If it is non reactive, why do I have .06 on the test for the signal to cutoff. Is there some Hepatitis C in my body?
What are these Hep C test results? I really need help understanding?
Looks like your negative for Hep C. What did your dr say?
What are these Hep C results? Positive or Negative?
I think your results indicate you have been exposed to the hepatitis C virus, but I am not sure. You need to discuss this with your doctor. http://www.ehow.com/how_5727779_interpre...
Hepatitis C result?
The doctors office wouldn't just give a number if there was a positive number, they would have to say you are positive for hep c. An antibody does not always mean there is an infection anyway, it can just mean there has been contact. Our bodies carry many antibodies, but it doesn't mean we have the disease. For example, I had a positive t.b. test, but not tuberculosous. I had just had the antobody show up. 25 years later, still no tb...Never worry unless the doctor says a test is positive...
I got my Hep C & HIV Test results back and...?
Both results are negative. The s/co (sample/cut-off) ratio will vary by laboratory. The screening tests for Hepatitis and HIV are intended to be overly sensitive (they dont want to miss anything). So a small amount of cross-reactivity is not uncommon. Your values of <0.1 and <1 are from cross-reacting antibodies and the design of the test. Focus on the final "negative" result.
In a Hepatitis B test result, what does "inactive" and "reactive" mean? Is it the same meaning as "positive" and "negative"?
inactive is a drs interpretation of the status of the hep b infection. If there’s inflammation (alt elevation and detectable hep b dna virus) then it’s active.There are some people who have chronic inactive hep b. Their immune system and hep b are tolerating each other.reactive usually is the lab test result e.g. hep b s antibody reactive or nonreactive.The labs that show hep b is an active infection is hep b s ag +, Hep b E ag implies replication, and the newer hep b dna pcr is most useful.
If a person Anti HCV result was <1.0,is this mean Anti HCV non Reactive/negative?
In most lab tests, yes, that would be true, but it depends upon what unit of measurement is being used for the 1.0.The first level of testing for hepatitis C (HCV) is antibody testing. I have added a link from the US Centers for Disease Control on how this test is often interpreted, along with article from the website Hep, which is more of a commercial publication in the US, but one with a lot of helpful information for testing, follow-up testing, and information on HCV treatment. That article does a very good explanation of what it could mean to be false positive or false negative for HCV.There are some clinicians—and laboratories of course—that believe that the best test remains the HCV RNA test to determine if you have any circulating virus. For those of us working in more public health or hospital based clinical settings, that may be an expense not easily borne by most health ministries in non-Western countries. And, I have had to see patients fight for the RNA tests in the United Kingdom.See:https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hc...See: Why Hepatitis C Tests May Give False ResultsDisclaimer: I have been a financial donor to the CDC Foundation, and a contributor / writer to the Hepatitis Magazine. I have also been a federal grant reviewer for HCV programming in the United States.