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Infectious Disease Serology

The Virology lab is located at the National Blood Centre (NBC), on the grounds of St James hospital in Dublin 8. It is governed and operated by a dedicated multidisciplinary team, including Consultant Microbiologist, Medical scientists, Biomedical scientists and Laboratory assistants. The laboratory is regulated by the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA).

The core function of the IBTS Virology Laboratory is the mandatory screening of all blood donations for the presence of antibodies to:

HIV Type I & II.
Antibody to Hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV).
Human T-lymphotropic virus types I and II.
Antibody to Hepatitis B core (anti-HBc).
Hepatitis B surface Antigen (HBsAg).
Antibody to Treponema Pallidum (Syphilis).
Selected donations are tested for Cytomegalovirus (CMV) (approx. 80% of donations) in order to have a supply of CMV negative donations for those patients who are at –risk of the complications of CMV infection e.g. immunocompromised patients.
Malaria.

Technology

We perform testing on a number of platforms:

The Abbott Alinity S System

This is a high-throughput, fully-automated immunoassay analyser designed to determine the presence of specific antigens and antibodies using chemiluminescent immunoassay (CMIA) technology.

Alinity-S-min

The Abbott Architect

A high throughput analyser that uses chemiluminescent immunoassay (CMIA) technology. It operates a large serological screening assay menu.

Architect

DS2® Automated Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) System

This system is an open platform microtitre plate analyser. Performing the complete sample processing (sample pre-dilutions, sample and reagent dispensing, incubations, wash processes, plate transports) as well as the photometric measurement and evaluations. This system can operate a wide selection of ELISA assays

DS2

Research & Publications

We encourage our team to contributes to many different research projects and events throughout their career. Most recently, we published our findings in SARS-CoV-2 Seroepidemiology & Bloodborne Infectious Disease.

Result Reporting & Surveillance

The laboratory is responsible for the referral and reporting of repeat reactive samples, received from the donor and non-donor programmes, for confirmatory/supplementary testing to the following laboratories

National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL),
Central Pathology Laboratory (CPL) St James Hospital
NHS-Monthly donation testing report
National Transfusion Microbiology Laboratory (NTMRL) in Collindale UK (eg. Malaria testing)

Contact Details

Chief Medical Scientist: Dermot Coyne
Phone: 01 432 2984 / 01 432 2754
Email: Virologylaboratory@ibts.ie

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Infectious Disease Serology

Infectious Disease Serology

Technology

The Abbott Alinity S System

The Abbott Architect

DS2® Automated Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) System

Research & Publications

Result Reporting & Surveillance

Contact Details

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