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How safe is safe: new human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 variants missed by nucleic acid testing.
Transfusion - 1 Oct 2013
Müller Benjamin, Nübling C Micha, Kress Julia, Roth W Kurt, De Zolt Silke, Pichl Lutz
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BACKGROUND: Nucleic acid amplification techniques (NAT) in routine blood donor screening considerably reduce the diagnostic window phase period. Nevertheless, several reports of false-negative NAT results were published. Here, four cases of human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 (HIV-1) RNA-positive blood donations that escaped detection by NAT screening are described. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: A total of 2.7...
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