Table 5.
Available Assays for Quantification of HCV in Serum/Plasma
| Amplicor HCV Monitor (Roche Molecular Systems) | Manual RT-PCR | 0.9 copies/mL | 600–500,000 | Yes |
| Cobas Amplicor HCV Monitor V2.0 (Roche Molecular Systems) | Semi-automated RT-PCR | 2.7 copies/mL | 600–500,000 | Yes |
| Versant HCV RNA 3.0 Assay (bDNA) (Siemens Health Care Diagnostics) | Semi-automated bDNA signal amplification | 5.2 copies/mL | 615–7,700,000 | Yes |
| LCx HCV RNA-Quantitative Assay (Abbott Diagnostics) | Semi-automated RT-PCR | 3.8 copies/mL | 25–2,630,000 | No |
| SuperQuant (National Genetics Institute) | Semi-automated RT-PCR | 3.4 copies/mL | 30–1,470,000 | No |
| Cobas Taqman HCV Test (Roche Molecular Systems) | Semi-automated real-time PCR | 43–69,000,000 | Yes | |
| Abbott RealTime (Abbott Diagnostics) | Semi-automated RT-PCR | 12–100,000,000 | No |