Table 3.
Analysis of unspiked and spiked ante- and postmortem specimens for HCV infection
| Subject No. | Anti-HCV, S/CO |
HCV RNA, IU/mL |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| no spiking |
spiking |
no spiking |
spiking |
|
| ante-/postmortem | ante-/postmortem | ante-/postmortem | ante-/postmortem | |
| 1 | 0.1/0.0 | 2.7/2.8 | 0/0 | 19/17 |
| 2 | 0.1/0.1 | 23/2.2 | 0/0 | 24/25 |
| 3 | 0.0/0.0 | 2.9/23 | 0/0 | 29/37 |
| 4 | 0.0/0.0 | 2.6/2.6 | 0/0 | 16/32 |
| 5 | 0.1/0.1 | 2.7/2.6 | 0/0 | 34/45 |
| 6 | 0.1/0.1 | 3.0/2.8 | 0/0 | 19/30 |
| 7 | 0.1/0.1 | 23/2.7 | 0/0 | 32/36 |
| 8 | 0.1/0.1 | 2.4/2.0 | 0/0 | 35/29 |
| 9 | 0.1/0.1 | 2.6/3.5 | 0/0 | 20/27 |
| 10 | 0.0/0.0 | 3.2/3.0 | 0/0 | 30/49 |
| 11 | 0.1/0.0 | 3.3/3.1 | 0/0 | 23/18 |
| 12 | 0.1/0.1 | 3.4/3.4 | 0/0 | 23/27 |
| 13 | 0.1/0.1 | 4.1/5.0 | 0/0 | 35/28 |
| 14 | 0.1/0.0 | 3.7/4.5 | 0/0 | 19/26 |
| 15 | 0.1/0.2 | 4.9/5.1 | 0/0 | 30/32 |
| 16 | 0.0/0.0 | 4.1/4.1 | 0/0 | 33/29 |
| 17 | 0.1/0.1 | 3.1/3.2 | 0/0 | 52/42 |
| 18 | 0.1/0.1 | 2.2/2.4 | 0/0 | 33/17 |
| 19 | 0.1/0.1 | 3.4/3.2 | 0/0 | 36/18 |
| 20 | 0.1/0.1 | 4.0/4.1 | 0/0 | 17/28 |
Anti-HCV cutoff: ≥1.0. HCV PCR lower limit of detection: 15 IU/mL. HCV, hepatitis C virus; S/CO, sample/cutoff.