| serologial screening of human t cell lymphotropic virus i and ii (htlv i/ii) in blood banks by immunoblotting and enzyme-immuno assays: to demand or to defeat? | human t cell lymphotropic virus i and ii (htlv i/ii) has been recommended to be screened for blood donors since 1988, and it become a mandatory test to get college of american pathologists (cap) accreditation. the present study aimed at investigating the prevalence rate of htlv i/ii among arab blood donors, to revise whether is its screening mandatory? thirty-thousand (30,000) arab donors along two years attending two central hospital blood banks in jeddah. antibodies to htlv i/ii have been scre ... | 2005 | 17977218 |