[The serodiagnosis of viral hepatitis C].

Sensitivities and specificities of four commercial enzyme immunoassay test systems manufactured by Ortho (USA), Abbott (USA), Organon (Netherlands), Innotest (Belgium) and of three pilot Russian diagnostic agents created at the Mazaĭ Research and Production Amalgamation (Moscow) and the D. I. Ivanovskiĭ Institute of Virology (Moscow) and Pasteur Institute (St. Petersburg) for detection of antibody to hepatitis C have been compared. A high incidence of hepatitis C virus infection was revealed in various Moscow populations: blood and plasma donors, inpatients, and medical staff.