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What Are the Consequences of Indeterminate Results in Confirmatory Tests for Antibodies against Transmissible Viruses
Author(s) -
Dodd Roger Y.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
vox sanguinis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.68
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1423-0410
pISSN - 0042-9007
DOI - 10.1046/j.1423-0410.1997.73200972.x
Subject(s) - indeterminate , citation , library science , medicine , psychology , computer science , mathematics , pure mathematics
In spite of considerable improvement of screening and confirmatory tests for the detection of antibodies against various viruses which can be transmitted by blood or blood products, indeterminate results are still frequently obtained in confirmatory assays. Since, as judged from the literature, there does not seem to be a general consensus on the consequences of such indeterminate results, particularly with regard to a possible reentry of the donor, we decided to devote an International Forum to this subject and the following questions were put to 15 experts in the field: