NDLI: Multicenter evaluation of individual donor nucleic acid testing (NAT) for simultaneous detection of human immunodeficiency virus -1 & hepatitis B & C viruses in Indian blood donors.

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Multicenter evaluation of individual donor nucleic acid testing (NAT) for simultaneous detection of human immunodeficiency virus -1 & hepatitis B & C viruses in Indian blood donors.

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Author	Makroo, Raj Nath Choudhury, N. Jagannathan, Lakshminarasimhan Parihar-Malhotra, M. Raina, V. Chaudhary, Ranjit K. Marwaha, Neelam Bhatia, Narendra Kumar Ganguly, Anil Kumar
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE India has a high prevalence of HIV-1, hapatitis C and B virus (HCV and HBV) in the blood donors but has yet to implement nucleic acid testing (NAT) in blood screening. We undertook a multicentre evaluation of blood donor testing by NAT for simultaneous detection of HIV-1, HBV and HCV in a single tube and also to determine the feasibility of NAT implementation in India's low volume setting. METHODS A total of 12,224 unlinked samples along with their serological results were obtained from representative eight blood banks in India and were individually manually tested by the Procleix Ultrio Assay (Chiron Corp. Emeryville, CA) for simultaneous detection of HIV-1, HCV, and HBV. RESULTS Of the 12,224 samples tested, 209 (1.71%) were seroreactive. One hundred thirty three samples (1.09%) were reactive by Ultrio assay, 84 samples were seroreactive but NAT non reactive. There were eight NAT yield cases: 1 HIV, 1 HIV-HCV co-infection, and 6 HBV. INTERPRETATION & CONCLUSION Our observed NAT yield for all three viruses was 1 in 1528 (0.065%). We estimate NAT could interdict 3272 infectious donations a year among our approximate 5 million annual donations.
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PubMed reference number	18403791
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	127
Issue Number	2
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://icmr.nic.in/ijmr/2008/february/0206.pdf
Journal	The Indian journal of medical research
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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