The significance of repeat testing in Turkish blood donors screened with HBV, HCV and HIV immunoassays and the importance of S/CO ratios in the interpretation of HCV/HIV screening test results and as a determinant for further confirmatory testing

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 152-159

  Acar, Ali ^a   Kemahli, Sabri ^b   Altunay, Husnu ^c   Kosan, Erdogan ^c   Oncul, Oral ^a   Gorenek, Levent ^a   Cavuslu, Saban ^a  

^a GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Capa Red Crescent Blood Centre   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blood donors; HBV; HCV; HIV; Screening tests

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NONHUMAN; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SCREENING TEST; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); ALGORITHM; BLOOD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; IMMUNOLOGY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TURKEY;

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD DONORS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HIV ANTIBODIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HIV-2; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TURKEY;

EID: 77951218293     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2009.00987.x     Document Type: Article

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