Open AccessSerial follow-up of repeat voluntary blood donors reactive for anti-HCV ELISA
Author(s) -
Nikumani Choudhury,
Sunita Tulsiani,
P. B. Desai,
Raju Shah,
Ankit Mathur,
V Harimoorthy
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
asian journal of transfusion science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.262
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1998-3565
pISSN - 0973-6247
DOI - 10.4103/0973-6247.75979
Subject(s) - medicine , nat , hepatitis c virus , nucleic acid test , antibody , virology , blood bank , whole blood , immunology , virus , covid-19 , emergency medicine , computer network , disease , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Voluntary non-remunerated repeat blood donors are perceived to be safer than the first time blood donors. This study was planned for follow-up of previous hepatitis C virus (HCV) test results of anti-HCV enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) reactive repeat blood donors. The aim was to suggest a protocol for re-entry of the blood donors who are confirmed HCV negative by nucleic acid test (NAT) and recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA). A group of repeat voluntary donors were followed retrospectively who became reactive on a cross sectional study and showed HCV reactivity while donating blood regularly.