"The NSW Red Cross Blood Bank HCV Re-Entry Program: A Worthwhile Project."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the First Australasian Conference on Hepatitis C, held March 16-18, 1997, in Sydney, Australia, "Current third generation anti-HCV screening EIAs are highly reliable among individuals with risk factors for or symptoms and signs of HCV infection, but the false positive rate remains a significant problem when a low risk population such as blood donors is screened. A prospective HCV re-entry program was introduced at the NSW Red Cross Blood Bank for Sydney metropolitan donors with normal ALT and AST levels who made a donation that was repeatedly reactive on screening by third generation anti-HCV EIA (Murex), but non-reactive on...

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