Association of serum levels of C-reactive protein with CRP-717 T/C polymorphism and viremia in HCV and HBV carriers.
Tuane Carolina Ferreira MouraEdnelza da Silva Graça AmorasMaria Alice Freitas QueirozSimone Regina Souza da Silva CondeAlan Barroso Araújo GrisóliaRicardo IshakAntonio Carlos Rosário VallinotoPublished in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2019)
The present results demonstrated a close relationship between the ability of the virus to replicate and cause liver damage and low serum concentrations of C-reactive protein. Future research may determine if these results can be interpreted as a possible form of escape for the virus by decreasing its action as an opsonin and decreasing phagocytosis, which are functions of C-reactive protein in the immune response.