... baculovirus-expressed HCV proteins and Western blot analysis inorder to be sure of the specificity of the antibodyresponses to a given protein. One of the drawbacks of theassay is, however, that only antibodies ... 0The prevalence of anti-HCV antibodies were analysed by Western blot analysis with recombinant HCV proteins in 68 patients with chronic HCV infection caused by different genotypes 1, 2, 3 and ... Anti-HCV, Abbott, Wiesbaden,Germany; Innotest HCV Ab IV, Innogenetics, Ghent, Bel-gium; Inno-LIA HCV Ab III update, Innogenetics, Ghent,Belgium). HCV RNA detection was performed by CobasAmplicor...