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- Title
Trends in prevalence, incidence, and residual risk of major transfusion-transmissible viral infections in United Arab Emirates blood donors: impact of individual-donation nucleic acid testing, 2004 through 2009.
- Authors
Al Shaer, Laila; AbdulRahman, Mahera; John, Thomas J; AlHashimi, Ali
- Abstract
United Arab Emirates (UAE) has a heterogeneous population consisting of more than 160 nationalities and 85% of the population being non-UAE. In 2007, Dubai Blood Donation Centre (DBDC), the major local supplier of blood in the UAE, introduced six-minipool nucleic acid test (NAT) for hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which in 2008 upgraded to individual-donation (ID)-NAT. The aim of this study was to analyze the efficacy of the donor screening program in the UAE and evaluate the impact of NAT on the yield and residual risk of transfusion-transmissible viral infections (TTVIs).
- Publication
Transfusion, 2012, Vol 52, Issue 11, p2300
- ISSN
1537-2995
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1537-2995.2012.03740.x