| high incidence of hepatitis c virus infection in hemodialysis patients in units with high prevalence. | the prevalence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection was evaluated in 227 hemodialysis patients from four units in caracas, venezuela, by using different second- and third-generation enzyme immunoassays (eias) and immunoblot assays. hcv antibodies were detected in 162 patients (71%) by the recombinant-based second-generation assays (abbott and ortho) and in 161 patients by the synthetic peptide-based eia (ubi). of the 162 hcv antibody-positive serum samples, 161 were confirmed to be positive by r ... | 1996 | 8784559 |