[Anti-HCV antibodies against the structural and nonstructural antigens of hepatitis C in people seropositive in the second generation test].

Forty six anti-HCV repeatable positive (the 2nd generation Abbott EIA test) adults, among which 26 were blood donors and 19 were patients with chronic hepatitis, were tested using Abbott HCV EIA Supplemental Assay. The test renders possible to conduct separate investigation antibodies against structural and nonstructural antigens of HCV. In 44/45 (97.8 per cent) cases was an agreement of the results with the 2nd generation test. In the most of cases (80 per cent) both types of antibodies were present. However, in 20 per cent of blood donors the antibodies against structural HCV antigen were not present whereas all the chronic hepatitis patients had these type of antibodies.