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Diagnostic algorithm for HBV safe transfusion.
1 Jul 2009
Abstract excerpt
Nucleic acid testing (NAT) has been introduced in blood donation screening in the late 1990s and was progressively extended with the availability of commercial assays initially for HCV, to HIV-1 and more recently to HBV1, 2. The main objective of HCV and HIV-1 RNA screening was the detection of window period infections (WP) for viruses that replicate very quickly with a viral load doubling time of 14 and 20...
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