HIV/AIDS
New HIV/AIDS study results from A. Assal et al described
Published in AIDS Weekly, March 9th, 2009
According to recent research from France, "The operational and analytical performance of two automated triplex hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) nucleic acid test (NAT) systems were compared in four screening laboratories of the French Blood Service. Two laboratories evaluated the Procleix Tigris system (Chiron/Gen-Probe) in individual donation (ID) format and two sites used the cobas s 201 system (Roche Molecular Systems) on minipools (MPs) of six donations."
"The analytical sensitivity, the specificity, and operational performance were compared. The ID to MP-NAT relative sensitivity factors in standard dilution...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-03-09)
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