At the bloodbank I worked at, we used something called NAT testing, it was a specific lavender tube, NAT stood for nucleic acid testing, I was just a phlebotomist, so I'm not sure about that side of things, but I was told this was a more advanced type of HIV/AIDS testing. I wonder how it's different from the PCR test? I do remember that we hardly had any HIV positive results in the 15 years I worked there, because lab and phlebots would talk, and the tech that had drawn the sample would usually find out. I could probably count the positive for HIV on one hand, but the hepatitis results were a dime a dozen.
At the bloodbank I worked at, we used something called NAT testing, it was a specific lavender tube, NAT stood for nucleic acid testing, I was just a phlebotomist, so I'm not sure about that side of things, but I was told this was a more advanced type of HIV/AIDS testing. I wonder how it's different from the PCR test? I do remember that we hardly had any HIV positive results in the 15 years I worked there, because lab and phlebots would talk, and the tech that had drawn the sample would usually find out. I could probably count the positive for HIV on one hand, but the hepatitis results were a dime a dozen.