'Noise' in microbiological screening assays

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 97-106

  Dow, D C ^a  

^a Law Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETICS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; STANDARD; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; VIREMIA; VIROLOGY;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; VIREMIA; VIROLOGY;

EID: 6744226380     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3148.2000.00248.x     Document Type: Review

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