Evaluation of a new West Nile virus nucleic acid test for screening of blood donations.

CONCLUSION: The cobas WNV test for use on the cobas 6800/8800 System, a fully automated test system, demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity and is suitable for the detection of WNV in blood donors.
PMID: 30427542 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Transfusion - November 14, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Stanley J, AuBuchon JP, Erickson Y, Waxman DA, Williamson PC, Bertuzis R, Huynh N, Duncan JR, Dyer N, Pate LL, Galel SA Tags: Transfusion Source Type: research