Publications by authors named "Marcia Bernardino de Carvalho Polite"
One window-period donation in two years of individual donor-nucleic acid test screening for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus.
José Eduardo Levi Ricardo Antonio D'Almeida Pereira Márcia Bernardino de Carvalho Polite Mariza Aparecida Mota Silvia Patricia Nunez
Rev Bras Hematol Hemoter
August 2013
Objective: To describe general data on nucleic acid/serology testing and report the first hepatitis B-nucleic acid testing yield case of an immunized donor in Brazil.
Methods: A total of 24,441 donations collected in 2010 and 2011 were submitted to individual nucleic acid testing for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus using the TaqMan((r)) MPX kit (Roche) on the Cobas s201 platform, in addition to routine screening for serological markers. Nucleic acid testing-reactive donations were further evaluated by real-time polymerase chain reaction using Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus tests.