Hepatitis B virus testing by minipool nucleic acid testing: does it improve blood safety?
HBV MP-NAT and decreases in HBV incidence (likely vaccine-related) in the United States have reduced residual risks to levels comparable to those of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus and raise the question of the continued need for all three HBV markers for blood donation screening. Further reductions in residual risk will require the implementation of more sensitive HBV-NAT methods including ID-NAT.
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