Rawan Ahmad A Hadi
Second Secondary School, Abha, SAUDI ARABIA
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease affecting the liver. They are approximately 3.2millions people in the US chronically infected and each year 17.000 people are newly infected .The Hepatitis C virus is transmitted through infected blood contact .The virus persists in the liver in about 85% of those infected. Persistent infection can be treated with medication. Overall,51% are cured. Other may require liver transplant.
The Aim of this study is to Diagnose Hepatitis C virus (HCV) rapidly and simply were the use of whole blood and to avoid the risk of the related healthy problem.
The use of the whole blood to diagnose HCV is rapid, easy in the house.
A 40 human blood samples were used in two groups:20 serum and 20 whole blood .the rapid screen test for the qualitative detection of HCV (serum/plasma) was used to diagnose HCV according .
The results are: 1 20 samples from serum as:
6 samples were positive.
14 samples were negative
2 10 samples from whole blood as:
4 samples were positive.
6samples were negative.