Comparison of the analytical and operational performance of two viral nucleic acid test blood screening systems: Procleix Tigris and cobas s 201

Transfusion

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 289-300

  Assal, Azzedine ^a   Barlet, Valérie ^b   Deschaseaux, Marie ^b   Dupont, Isabelle ^b   Gallian, Pierre ^b   Guitton, Cathy ^b   Morel, P ^b   David, Bernard ^b   De Micco, Philippe ^b  

^a ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; WORKLOAD;

AUTOMATION; DNA, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HIV-1; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58849106017     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.01965.x     Document Type: Article

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