Blood Testing

Molecular HIV/HCV screen fast, accurate

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, September 30th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States say that a nucleic acid test can quickly and accurately find HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in donated blood.

Janet Vargo and colleagues working with Gen-Probe, Inc. in San Diego, the Chiron Corporation in Emeryville, California, and other nonprofit organizations in Arizona, Florida, Maryland, and Wisconsin evaluated Gen-Probe's Procleix HIV-1/HCV RNA assay.

The Procleix blood screen was fast, sensitive, and specific for its target pathogens, Vargo and coauthors found.

The researchers assessed the sensitivity of the Procleix HIV/HCV assay using more than...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2002-09-30)

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