Single-tube, highly sensitive detection of the West Nile virus RNA in blood and plasma donations.
Assay Performance Characteristics*
Platform Procleix Tigris system or Procleix Panther system
Assay chemistry Qualitative, transcription-mediated amplification (TMA)
Indication Blood screening, source plasma, cadaveric (non-heart-beating donors)
Collection tube Serum or plasma from EDTA, ACD, heparin or sodium citrate anti-coagulated samples
Pool sizes ID-NAT, 4, 8, 16
Assay kit size 5000 tests
Detected virusWNV (lineages I-II)