title: Sixth EPFA/NIBSC workshop on NAT in rome 1999: outcome of discussions.
abstract: The sixth international workshop on "Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology for the Detection of Blood Borne Viruses" was held on 5-6 May 1999 at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome, Italy. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together regulators, blood and plasma product manufacturers, national control agencies, test kits manufacturers and scientists to discuss recent experience as well as regulatory topics related to the use of NAT for the detection of blood borne viruses. Various papers were presented and discussed in 6 sessions.
authors.affiliation: European Plasma Fractionation Association (EPFA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Müller-Breitkreutz
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Allain
mesh_terms: D016174:Hepacivirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000097:blood* / Q000235:genetics; D012015:Reference Standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012307:Risk Factors; D012384:Rome
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral