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. 2004 Jul;42(7):3012–3016. doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.7.3012-3016.2004

TABLE 2.

Correlation of HCV RNA levels in different compartments for the three groups of patients

Group Correlation for HCV RNA loada
Serum vs liver
Serum vs PBMC
Liver vs PBMC
r P value r P value r P value
A 0.6657 <0.0001 0.3754 0.0170 0.2706 0.0912
B 0.5176 <0.0001 0.5004 0.0002 0.3560 0.0104
C 0.5197 0.0078 0.3700 0.0687 0.4276 0.0330
a

HCV RNA loads were calculated in copies per milliliter for serum samples and in copies per microgram of RNA for liver and PBMC samples.