Nucleic Acid Amplification Technique (NAT) has been proved to be an approach to shorten "window period" . Residual risk of HCV, HBV and HIV is believed to be reduced by 42%-72% with Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing. In Europe, it is required by CPMP and Eu.Ph. (2000) that ...
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Failure of Routine HIV-1 Tests in a Case Involving Transmission With Preseroconversion Blood Components During the Infectious Window Period Current screening practices for blood donations have been successful in reducing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission through receipt of contami... Ling,E...
The nucleic acid testing (NAT) can shorten the test window period by up to 7-12 days. In this study, we describe an in-house NAT based on the multiplex nested RT-PCR method to detect the HIV RNA. We also evaluated it in a high risk cohort in Beijing.Liu, ZhiyingLi, WeiXu, Meng...