Hepatitis C virus: Morphogenesis, infection and therapy

Table 2 Commercially available hepatitis C virus RNA detection assays

Assay	Distributor	Technology	Detection limits (IU/mL)	Genotypes	Approval status
Qualitative HCV RNA detection assays
AmplicorTM HCV 2.0	Roche molecular Systems	PCR	50	All	FDA, CE
VersantTM HCV	Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics	TMA	5-10	All	FDA, CE
Quantitative HCV RNA detection
AmplicorTM HCV Monitor 2.0	Roche molecular Systems	PCR	500 to approximately 5.105	All	CE
HCV SuperQuantTM	National Genetics institute	PCR	30 to 107	All	U.S only
VersantR HCV RNA 3.0	Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics	bDNA	615 to 8.106	All	FDA, CE
CobasR AmpliPrep/High pure system/CobasR TaqManR	Roche molecular Systems	Real-time PCR	15 to 107	All	FDA, CE
Abbot RealTimeTM HCV	Abbot Diagnostics	Real-time PCR	10 to 107	All	FDA, CE
Artus HCV QS-RGQ assay	Qiagen	Real-time PCR	34 to 108	All	CE
VersantRR HCV 1.0 kPCR assay	Siemens	Real-time PCR	10 to approximately 107	-	CE

HCV: hepatitis C virus; TMA: Transcription-mediated amplification of RNA; bDNA: Branched DNA hybridization assay.