Susan Galel
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Feasibility of routine individual donation testing for West Nile virus RNA during epidemic season using the investigational Roche cobas TaqScreen West Nile virus test and cobas s 201 system prototype.
Transfusion. 2008; (7): 1486-94
Minipool (MP) screening for West Nile virus (WNV) RNA may fail to detect presumptive viremic donations (PVDs) detectable by individual donation screening (IDS). Most blood centers switch collection regions to IDS when PVD detection by MP screening reaches a certain frequency. Use of IDS for all donations during WNV season was assessed during a clinical trial of the Roche cobas TaqScreen WNV test. Also evaluated was whether PVD detection reliably identifies regions that should be targeted for IDS.
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