In pregnant women found antibodies to hepatitis C (she is in shock!), Sent her husband to donate blood. Please answer if her husband does not find this virus infection, can I assume that it is not. Can an analysis to show a false positive result? If it does it is, is it possible to give birth and what projections for baby's health?

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist If the husband does not detect the hepatitis C virus, it does not mean that the hepatitis B have no wife. The probability of sexual transmission is 0 - 7%. Analysis result women may be wrong. It is desirable to retake the analysis in another laboratory. If antibodies are all - still present, then the woman should consult a doctor - hepatologist, a further examination. With the presence in the body of HCV RNA, the possibility of transmission of the virus depends on the kid in viral load, ie, how much of the virus in the blood of the mother. Similar question: ... again. Antibody to hepatitis C virus may be false positive, I would like to ...