Figure 1From: Hepatitis B virus genotypes and evolutionary profiles from blood donors from the northwest region of ChinaNAT screening of 11 reactive samples from 120 blood donors. To screen the HBV infected donors, NAT was employed. 120 donor blood samples were divided into 10 pools with 12 samples in each pool. Real-time PCR was used on each pool. If a positive reaction was observed, the pool was narrowed until a single reactive sample was detected. Quantitive PCR was then performed against positive samples. A, reactive sample counts of each pool in the first round of detection; blank represents HBV-reactive sample counts and black is the total sample counts in the pool; B, lower HBV DNA copies of reactive samples in the NAT-reactive samples; C higher HBV DNA copies of reactive samples in the NAT-reactive samples.Back to article page