Abstract

The Blood Collection Centers of the Japanese Red Cross has alerady begun anti-HIV antibody screening of blood donor samples since Noverver 1986.The ELISA methods have been mainly used, however, these methods do not have enough sensitivity, specificity and usefulness for screening.Therefore, a new test method which is more reliable and standaridized was required by every Blood Collection Center.In the present paper, the authors report the results showing that the gelatin particle agglutination test for anti-HIV antibody detection is more useful than ELISA tests.

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