"Ask the Experts": Can I Test Positive for Hepatitis C but Have No Viral Load?

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The following is a physician-patient interaction that took place within TheBody.com's "Ask the Experts" forum on hepatitis.

		hepatitis c Jul 27, 2013 i have tested posotive for hep c but there is no viral load. what does this mean? do i have it or not?


		Response from Dr. Taylor Having a positive hep C antibody but a negative hep C viral load means that you have been exposed to hep C but cleared away the infection and do not have chronic hep C. Ideally the hep C viral load should be repeated to confirm this result. This is good news!

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Comment by: Raj (India) Tue., Jun. 30, 2015 at 6:23 am UTC
Hello Doctor,

I recently underwent PCR for HCV and the count is 9344 copies. I don't know how to convert this into IU/ml or to interpret this. Can you please help me. The method was HCV quantitative assay, Rotor gene real time analysis.

Thanks in advance.

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