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[CMV screening with the latex agglutination test in blood donors. Comparison between EIA and latex agglutination]
1Blutbank-Immunhämatologie-Transfusionsmedizin, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover.
Abstract:
For CMV-Screening of blood donors the latex agglutination test (LAT) can be used as a complementary rapid analysis to the enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (EIA). In 98.56% there was no discrepancy between LAT and EIA in the serum, in 1.44% there was a negative LAT and a positive EIA.