An amino acid substitution in HCV core antigen limits its use as a reliable measure of HCV infection compared with HCV RNA

• Payuda Hansoongnern,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Pornpitra Pratedrat,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Pornjarim Nilyanimit,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Rujipat Wasitthankasem,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, National Biobank of Thailand, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Pathum Thani, Thailand

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• Nawarat Posuwan,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Nasamon Wanlapakorn,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Kanchanok Kodchakorn,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Thailand Excellence Center for Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9250-661X

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• Prachya Kongtawelert,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Thailand Excellence Center for Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Napaporn Pimsing,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Disease Control Group, Phetchabun Provincial Health Office, Phetchabun, Thailand

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• Yong Poovorawan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: yong.p@chula.ac.th

  Affiliations Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Fellow of the Royal Society of Thailand (FRS[T]), the Royal Society of Thailand, Sanam Sueapa, Bangkok, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2337-6807

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