Soluble egg antigen of Schistosoma Haematobiuminduces HCV replication in PBMC from patients with chronic HCV infection

Table 1 Results of RT-PCR amplification of plus and minus RNA strands in circulating PBMC from 26 HCV positive patients.

Patients	Age	Sex	Genotype	Serum Plus strand	PBMC Plus strand +ve	PBMC Minus strand
R.F.	35	♂	4	+	+	+
M.H.	46	♂	4	+	+	+
S.H.	45	♂	4	+	+	+
M.AA.	40	♂	4	+	+	+
809	37	♂	4	+	+	-
K.I.	30	♂	4	+	+	+
G.B.	37	♂	4	+	+	+
S.A.	36	♀	1b	+	+	+
F.AA.	42	♀	4	+	+	+
no 47	45	♂	4	+	+	+
A.N	37	♂	4	+	+	+
M.W.	40	♂	4	+	+	+
A.AZ.	37	♂	4	+	+	-
Y.AM.	42	♂	1b	+	+	+
R.M.	42	♂	4	+	+	+
no 51	53	♂	4	+	+	+
A.M.	47	♂	4	+	+	+
M.A.	42	♂	4	+	+	+
AH.AZ.	45	♂	4	+	+	-
A 730	47	♂	4	+	+	+
A.A.	43	♂	4	+	+	+
M.O.	45	♂	4	+	+	+
K.M.	48	♂	4	+	+	+
A.S.	38	♂	4	+	+	+
S.Y.	36	♂	4	+	+	-
S.K.	43	♀	4	+	+	-

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