Blood Testing

International Reference Standards Encouraged

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, March 12th, 2001

by Michael Greer, staff medical writer -- International standards for expressing the results of blood screening are necessary to validate cross-country study results, virologists say.

"Standardization of nucleic acid amplification technology (NAT) assays is necessary before the introduction of such assays for routine screening of blood and blood products for viral contaminants such as HBV, HCV, and HIV-1," said J. Saldanha and colleagues at England's National Institute for Biological Standards and Controls.

While reference reagents for many such viruses are available, their nucleic acid content is measured in a multitude of different and often...

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