Investigation of the Association of HCV or HIV Markers in Non-Discriminated Blood Donations / 대한수혈학회지

HBV core antibody and surface antibody test are currently conducted for those donors showing non-discriminated reactive (NDR) results on a nucleic acid amplification test (NAT) as a blood donor screening assay. It is necessary to investigate the relationship with HCV or HIV in the donors showing NDR results. From June 12th, 2012 to December 31st, 2018, 0.05% (9,020/17,798,461) donors showed NDR results on a NAT. Among the donors showing NDR results, 17 and 18 donors showed positive results on serological assay of HCV and HIV, respectively. 23 donors with NDR results showed positive results on the serological assay or NAT for HCV or HIV on the following donation. Further study and more accumulated data are required because it may be difficult to find the cause of NDR results by the current serological assay that is used for screening blood donors.

Results of Reentry Test for the Deferred Donors after Non-Discriminated Reactive in Nucleic Acid Amplification Test / 대한수혈학회지

BACKGROUND: Since December 15 2017, donors showing a non-discriminated reactive (NDR) result in the nucleic acid amplification test (NAT) have been temporarily deferred and anti-HBc and anti-HBs assays as additional tests were performed. Donors with an anti-HBc reactive result and less than 100 IU/L of anti-HBs could not be released and can request a reentry test after more than six months. This study considered the effects of additional tests for NDR donors by analyzing the reentry test results in donors not released in the additional test. METHODS: This study examined the results of the additional test for NDR donors from January 2017 to September 2018 and the reentry test of the donors not released in the additional test. RESULTS: NAT was conducted on 4,706,051 blood donors over the period and 2,545 (0.05%) of them showed NDR. A total of 656 (25.8%) of the NDR donors were not released in the additional test. Among them, 246 donors requested a reentry test; 222 (90.2%) donors were not reentered, and 23 (10.4%) showed HBV NAT reactive results in the reentry test. Among the remaining 24 reentered donors, 2 donors (8.3%) showed anti-HBc nonreactive results in the reentry test and 22 donors (91.7%) showed higher than 100 IU/L of anti-HBs. CONCLUSION: The follow-up of NDR donors may be significant because some donors showed different results between screening test and reentry test. In addition the effectiveness of the introduction of additional tests for the NDR donors has been proved to be effective.