HIV/AIDS Testing

Novel nucleic acid tests suitable for large-scale HIV, hepatitis C blood donor screening

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 9th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States have developed a highly sensitive assay system for finding HIV or hepatitis C infection in blood.

"Various nucleic acid assays have been developed and implemented for diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections," according to Christina Giachetti and colleagues at San Diego-based GenProbe.

Giachetti and coauthors combined standard test features with proprietary GenProbe advances in a 3-test system, capable of large-scale blood screening, they said.

This semiautomated system...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-09-09)

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