the Order of examination of donors of blood will change in the near future. They will check for hepatitis b in new ways.
the Corresponding decree was developed by the Ministry of health. The Ministry said about the imperfection of the current procedures for examination of potential donor of blood and plasma. In particular, doctors do not always possible to reliably establish whether a person is a carrier of the hepatitis b virus is a Problem in the currently used test system. She identifies disease only in the active stage, while in latent form, the virus remains undetected. As explained in Department, the study of surface antigen of hepatitis b (the so-called Australian antigen) is proposed to replace the definition in the blood sample of donor antibodies to the nuclear antigen of hepatitis b virus (anti-HBC). Hidden form of insidious hepatitis b: virus DNA detected in the liver in very low concentrations and may not be detected in the serum. But the antibodies to a nuclear protein in the blood may be present. Moreover, these antibodies are produced in the body for two to three months after primary infection and are present in the blood for life even if the person is not experiencing any discomfort and feels perfectly healthy. A new method of examination of donors will help to eliminate contaminated blood transfusion patients.
