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Multicenter evaluation of individual donor nucleic acid testing (NAT) for simultaneous detection of human immunodeficiency virus -1 & hepatitis B & C viruses in Indian blood donors.

R N Makroo, Nilufar Akhtar Banu Choudhury, Latha Jagannathan, M Parihar-Malhotra, V Raina, Rajesh Chaudhary, Neelam Marwaha, N K Bhatia, A.K. Ganguly

PubMed · 2008 · 73 citations · 33 references

Abstract

Our observed NAT yield for all three viruses was 1 in 1528 (0.065%). We estimate NAT could interdict 3272 infectious donations a year among our approximate 5 million annual donations.

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