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Blood screening nucleic acid amplification tests for human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 may require two different amplification targets
2 Aug 2011
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BACKGROUND: Five cases of human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 (HIV-1) RNA-positive blood donations are described that escaped detection by three different CE-marked nucleic acid amplification technique (NAT) screening assays. These events were associated with two HIV-1 transmissions to recipients of blood components. The implicated NAT assays are monotarget assays and amplify in different viral genome regions...
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