Antibodies against synthetic oligopeptides deduced from the putative core gene for the diagnosis of hepatitis C virus infection
Hiroaki Okamoto, Fumio Tsuda, Atsuhiko Machida, Eisuke Munekata, Yoshihiro Akahane, Yoshiki Sugai, Kazuo Mashiko, Takehiro Mitsui, Takeshi Tanaka, Yuzo Miyakawa, Makoto Mayumi – 1 February 1992 – Immunoassays were developed to detect antibodies against oligopeptides deduced from the putative core gene of hepatitis C virus, and their performances were compared with that of the commercial immunoassay for antibodies against the product of nonstructural regions of hepatitis C virus (anti‐C100‐3).