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Effectiveness of Using Nucleic Acid Amplification Test to Screen Blood Donors for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV: A Tertiary Care Hospital Experience From Pakistan

Background Ensuring blood safety is the primary goal of transfusion medicine. Despite extensive serological tests and strict safety measures, the risk of transfusion-transmitted infections (TTIs) still exists. As applied to blood screening, Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAT) offers much higher se...

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Autores principales:	Ali, Syeda M, Raza, Naila, Irfan, Muhammad, Mohammad, Mahnoor F, Kazmi, Fatima H, Fatima, Zainab
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Cureus 2023
Materias:	Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9958204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36852365 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34216

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