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087CE: Transfusion-transmitted Infections with Suchi Pandey

Blood Bank Guy Essentials Podcast

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The Importance of a Nucleic Acid Test for Blood Donor Testing

In certain cases, the nucleic acid test to confirm the results of either the infrahep B, the antigen or the antibody test. This is where the trick comes in. People that write examination questions, and I'm sure you've seen and experienced the Succi, they love to try and trick learners by suggesting that we're doing an antibody test for hepatitis B surface antigen. So there are a lot of details there that we could that we could go into in terms of confirmatory testing, et cetera.

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