Laboratories use infectious disease controls to ensure the accuracy of assays and testing equipment used for congenital or pediatric, sexually transmitted, and other types of infectious disease testing. Quality controls for infectious disease testing are a key component to controlling the spread of infection, since the impact of a laboratory reporting a false negative or positive can be devastating. Infectious disease controls are used on a range of methods and systems, including manual EIA methods and automated immunoassay systems. Day-to-day test variation, lot-to-lot kit performance, and operator variation can be measured using the controls. Common areas of use are virology, serology, and immunology labs; reference labs; and blood banks.
What Are Different Types of Infectious Disease Controls?
Positive and negative infectious disease controls are used to monitor the precision of tests detecting:
- HIV, hepatitis A and B
- Rubella, cytomegalovirus,
- Human papillomavirus, syphilis
- H. pylori, West Nile virus.
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