Laboratory Techniques

New Method Developed to Inactivate Virus Product for in vitro Diagnostics

Published in Blood Weekly, September 21st, 2000

International Reagents Corporation, a company located in Kobe, Japan, recently described a new technique for inactivating infectious donor plasma for use as a control in in vitro diagnostics.

The technique was described in a report titled "Triple virus inactivation method of control serum for antigen/antibody tests," presented at the American Association of Community Colleges 52^nd Annual Meeting and Clinical Laboratory Exposition held in San Francisco, California.

According to researchers who developed this technique, three steps are required for the inactivation process. First, researchers heat-treat the serum. Next, it is treated with...

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