TABLE 1.

Characteristics of the four men whose seminal plasma was positive for HCV RNA

Patient no.	Age (y)	Detection of HCV RNA in first set of samples testeda			Genotype of HCV in blood and semen
		Viral load in blood (log no. of copies)	Viral load in seminal plasma (qualitative result/log copies viral load)	Result for Qualitative motile spermatozoa
1	40	6.23	POS/3.40	NEG	1a
2	38	6.20	POS/2.88	NEG	3a
3	44	7.34	POS/<2	NEGb	3
4	52	6.32	POS/2.89	NEG	2

^aPOS, positive; NEG, negative.

^bFurther spermatozoon fractions from this patient were found to be positive (see text).