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ABBOTT LABORATORIES said the window period is 4 weeks.
Please confirm.
ABBOTT LABORATORIES said the window period is 4 weeks.
Please confirm.
That is a screening test not a diagnostic test for blood banks, and to monitor those that are already infected with HIV
1996 announcement, But today is 2008
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The test, to be sold under the name Abbott HIVAG-1 Monoclonal, is an enzyme immunoassay (EIA), and is the second FDA-licensed HIV antigen detection kit intended for use in blood banks and plasma centers nationwide according to new FDA blood screening recommendations. Abbott HIVAG-1 Monoclonal is also cleared for prognostic use in HIV-infected patients.
"The test reduces the ‘window’ period between HIV infection and detection the first 25 to 45 days, when the virus can elude efforts to screen it out," said Ronald Gilcher, M.D., president and CEO, Sylvan N. Goldman Center, Oklahoma Blood Institute, where the test has been researched since 1991. "The new test also cuts testing time to four hours from 24 from Abbott’s earlier version antigen test."
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The test, to be sold under the name Abbott HIVAG-1 Monoclonal, is an enzyme immunoassay (EIA), and is the second FDA-licensed HIV antigen detection kit intended for use in blood banks and plasma centers nationwide according to new FDA blood screening recommendations. Abbott HIVAG-1 Monoclonal is also cleared for prognostic use in HIV-infected patients.
"The test reduces the ‘window’ period between HIV infection and detection the first 25 to 45 days, when the virus can elude efforts to screen it out," said Ronald Gilcher, M.D., president and CEO, Sylvan N. Goldman Center, Oklahoma Blood Institute, where the test has been researched since 1991. "The new test also cuts testing time to four hours from 24 from Abbott’s earlier version antigen test."
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