Confirmation and follow up of initial “NAT yields”: Prospective study from a tertiary healthcare center in India

• Published in: Transfusion and apheresis science Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 242 - 247
• Main Authors: Pandey, Prashant, Tiwari, Aseem Kumar, Dara, Ravi C, Rawat, Ganesh Singh, Negi, Avinash, Raina, Vimarsh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2016
• Subjects: Blood Donors; Donor Selection - methods; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Health technology assessment; Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine; Hepacivirus; Hepatitis B - blood; Hepatitis B virus; Hepatitis C - blood; HIV Infections - blood; HIV-1; Humans; India; Individual donor nucleic acid amplification testing (ID-NAT); Male; NAT-yield; Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques; Prospective Studies; Tertiary Care Centers; Transfusion safety; Transfusion Transmitted Diseases (TTD); True NAT yield; Individual donor nucleic acid amplification testing (ID-NAT); True NAT yield; Transfusion safety; Transfusion Transmitted Diseases (TTD); NAT-yield

Abstract Background In India variable rate of “NAT yield” has been demonstrated in several published reports. This study was performed with the objective to know the rate of “true NAT yield” in blood donors by confirmation with supplementary tests and follow up of initial “NAT yield” donors. Materia...