| Date Posted |
Subject |
| Apr. 5, 2009 |
Selective Chagas Testing ADDENDA May 14 & June 12 |
| Nov. 3, 2007 |
Testing for viral infection
in donors using NAT |
| July 11, 2007 |
Management
of donors who are repeat reactive on Treponema
pallidum specific antibody tests but non-reactive
on enzyme immunoassay or other fluorescent treponemal
antibody confirmatory tests ADDENDA July
27 & Aug 27 |
| Jan. 21, 2006 |
Behavior-Based Blood Donor Deferrals in the Era of Nucleic Acid Testing ADDENDA Apr. 3 |
| July 28, 2005 |
Determining the risk of HIV or HCV infection in donors with indeterminate confirmatory or supplementary tests ADDENDA July 29, 31 & Aug. 3 |
| May 25, 2005 |
Detection of mutant examples of HBsAg ADDENDA May 26 |
| Dec. 30, 2004 |
Methods for determining suitability of lipemic samples for disease marker testing ADDENDA Jan. 2, 2005 |
| Aug. 25, 2004 |
Management of donors with a single reactive test for anti-HBc ADDENDA May 23, 2008 |
| July 30, 2004 |
Invalid test runs when using external controls for NAT testing to screen donors for HIV and HCV; ADDENDA Apr. 21, 2005 |
| May 5, 2004 |
Policies on the use of autologous units that test positive for HIV, HBV and/or HCV ADDENDA May 6, 2004 ; Aug. 3, 6, 8 & 9, 2005; Mar. 22, 2009 |
| May 4, 2004 |
Consideration of the implementation of the Procleix Ultrio Hepatitis B assay ADDENDA May 6 |
| Mar. 11, 2004 |
Use of nucleic acid amplification testing (NAT) results in notification of blood donors to resolve uncertain results for HIV and HCV ADDENDA Mar. 11, 15, 16, 24 & 30 |
| Mar. 9, 2004 |
Acceptable levels of hemolysis in samples submitted for donor infectious disease testing |
| Feb. 11, 2004 |
Should prospective blood donors be informed before donation of the possibility that one or more of their tests for infectious diseases may yield inconclusive results? |
| July 26, 2003 |
How good is HIV NAT for detection of HIV-1 Group O infection? ADDENDA Aug. 23 |
| July 26, 2003 |
Why must there be followup testing for a 'false positive' WNV donor? ADDENDA Aug. 23 & 28 |
| June 9, 2003 |
Does African monkeypox virus pose a threat to the blood supply? ADDENDA June 11 |
| Apr. 23, 2003 |
American Red Cross announces plan to screen donated blood for West Nile Virus (WNV) |
| Jan. 29, 2003 |
Is there an impending shortage of anti-HTLV-I/II test kits? ADDENDA Feb. 5 |
| Jan. 1, 2003 |
What is the risk of transmission of Lyme Disease by blood donated years after recovery from an untreated infection? |
| Dec. 1, 2002 |
What are best practices for building a frozen serum repository of blood donor samples for possible future infectious agent testing? ADDENDA Dec. 2, 3, 8 & 9 |
| Nov. 6, 2002 |
What is the risk that a blood donation might cause transmission of Lyme Disease? ADDENDA Nov. 10, 2002; Aug. 13, 2003 |
| Aug. 15, 2002 |
What is the current required lookback period for a donor testing confirmed positive for HIV-1 p24 antigen only? ADDENDA Aug. 16 |
| Aug. 9, 2002 |
West Nile Virus and the US Blood Supply ADDENDA Sept. 15; UPDATED July 25, 2005 |
| June 11, 2002 |
Should at-risk donors be interviewed and/or tested for T. cruzi infection to prevent transfusion-transmitted Chagas Disease? ADDENDA June 12 & 21; July 11; Aug. 1; Sept. 3; Nov 29 & 30, 2004; Feb. 19, 21 & 24, 2007 |
| April 6, 2002 |
Concern over non-confirming reactive or false positive disease marker results |
| Mar. 29, 2002 |
Chagas Disease Found in Three Organ Transplant Recipients - Priorities for testing blood donors? |
| Dec. 20, 2001 |
Hepatitis B core testing and donor deferral ADDENDA May 23, 2008 |
| Oct. 10, 2001 |
Is there a threat of various bioterrorist agents to the blood supply? ADDENDA Oct. 17 |
| Oct. 3, 2001 |
Is it time to drop syphilis testing of blood donated for transfusion? -revisited ADDENDA Jan 30, 2005 |
| June 6, 2001 |
Autologous Units Positive for ID Markers - Should they be collected and made available for transfusion? ADDENDA June 7 & 12, 2001; Aug. 3 & 6, 2005; Mar. 22, 2009 |
| July 5, 2000 |
Should NAT become standard for blood donors? |
| Feb. 14, 1999 |
A Controversy About New Viral Testing - 'Deja Vu' Again? |
