Viral indicators of the increased epidemiological hazard of subjects from high risk groups of hepatitis C virus parenteral infection

The author detected RNA of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and estimated its concentration in sera of subjects from groups with high risk of parenteral infection (GHRPI) and clinically healthy subjects infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The results show that the share of the acute hepatitis C reconvalescents with antibodies to HCV among people from GHRPI appeared to be smaller than among infected healthy subjects. The average fraction of sera with high virus load from subjects in GHRPI was nearly two times higher than the fraction number of such sera received from infected clinically healthy subjects.