consisting of members or elements of different kinds; of mixed character: a book of miscellaneous essays on American history. 2. having various qualities, aspects, or subjects: a miscellaneous discussion. Origin of miscellaneous.
exists and is an alternate of . When you store human blood and its components, there's little or no room for error. Red cells and whole blood, for instance, must be maintained strictly within the range of 1.0 to 6.0 degrees Celsius or 33.8 F to 42.8 F, with little or no tolerance for exceptions.
Using a testing assay with a detection limit of 1000 RLA, potentially infectious HCV was recovered from dried blood spots stored at 37oC for up to seven days. At temperatures of 4oC and 22oC, replicating HCV was recovered for up to six weeks of storage. The infectivity of the dried spots declined sharply during the first two weeks of storage at these temperatures.