BLOOD PRODUCTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
June 15, 2000
Briefing Information
Summary of PHS Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability Meeting, April 25-26, 2000, Stephen Nightingale, MD
Summary of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee Meeting, June 1-2, 2000, David Asher, MD
- Plasma Pool Screening by Nucleic Acid Tests for Hepatitis A Virus
Introduction and Background - Robin Biswas, MD, Medical Officer, Division of Emerging Transfusion Transmitted Diseases
Review of the History of Hepatitis A Transmitted by Transfusion, Mahmood Farshid, PhD, Regulatory Scientist, Division of Hematology
Virus Transmission by Blood Products: Detection of Infectious Hepatitis A Virus in Factor VIII Concentrates by Experimental Infection of Tamarins, Michael Chudy; Paul-Ehrlich-Institute; Langen (Germany)
Questions for the Committee
II. Development of Rapid HIV Tests
Background and Introduction, Kimber Lee Poffenberger, PhD, Biologist, Laboratory of Molecular Virology, DETTD, OBRR
Prevention of Perinatal HIV Transmission: Expedited HIV Testing for Pregnant Women in the Labor, Delivery & Neonatal Setting, Nancy A Wade, MD, MPH, New York State, Department of Health
HIV Rapid Testing: Challenges to Public Health, Bernard M Branson, MD, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Open Public Hearing
Multispot HIV-1/HIV-2 Rapid Test Kit, Scott Dennis, Manager of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance, Bio-Rad Labs
Medmira Rapid HIV Test, Debra Lynch, Med/Mira
QuixÔ HIV-1 (M&O) and HIV-2 Rapid Blood, Test, Afzal Chowdhury, PhD, Guardian Scientific Inc.