Technical aspects of the development and validation of tests for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in blood transfusion

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 164-170

  Minor, Philip D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assay development; Blood; Validation; vCJD

Indexed keywords

BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN INFECTION; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PRPSC PROTEINS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1942435213     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0042-9007.2004.00411.x     Document Type: Review

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