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Abstract
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is blood born pathogen with high incidence in Egypt. Serological detection of HCV infection in blood donors before donation process aims to decrease number of collected blood bags infected with the virus, decrease risk of transmitted infection to health care workers through wrong medical practices, and decrease reliance on blood donors’ honesty of their HCV infection status. There for. the current study aimed to compare diagnostic accuracy of rapid serological test versus reference standard test for HCV among blood donors, through a diagnostic study on a convenient sample of 130 blood donors, by screened capillary finger stick blood using rapid serological test (Intec test [Advanced Quality™ test]). Results revealed that sensitivity, and specificity of a rapid serological test were 50.00%, and 97.66% respectively, and its diagnostic accuracy was 96.92%. The researcher concludes that; rapid serological test has high percentage of diagnostic accuracy, but not as reference standard test; accordingly couldn’t rely on it as a diagnostic test to HCV among blood donors. The researchers recommended for replicating the study on larger scale, and on different blood components to estimate effectiveness of the rapid serological test.