Evaluation of the concomitant use of two different EIA tests for HIV screening in blood banks

• Main Authors: Otani Marcia M., Salles Nanci A., Barreto Angela M.E., Barreto Claudia C., Chamone Dalton F., Sabino Ester C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2003
• Subjects: Blood banks; blood donors; HIV; Brazil; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Eia
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/1039be0fe44147f188bc7e4997b51e66

OBJECTIVE: In 1998, the Brazilian Ministry of Health made it mandatory for all blood banks in the country to screen donated blood for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) concomitantly using two different enzyme immunoassay (EIA) tests. Concerned with the best use of available resources, our objective...