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Immunoassays for the Diagnosis of HIV: Meeting Future Needs by Enhancing the Quality of Testing

Predictive values may be defined as the likelihood that a result is correct. Predictive values depend on prevalence of the target analyte. NPVs of HIV tests and testing strategies are always high even ...
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Evaluation of Rapid Testing Algorithms for Venue-based Anonymous HIV Testing among Non-HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men, National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS), 2017

HIV rapid testing algorithms (RTAs) using any two orthogonal rapid tests (RTs) allow for on-site confirmation of infection. RTs vary in performance characteristics therefore the selection of RTs in an ...
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HIV: Make the diagnosis and take the next step

During ARS, the viral load is very high—often >100,000 copies/mL. The standard test to detect ARS is the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). False-positive HIV viral loads do ...
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Antibody-Positive Yet HIV RNA-Negative Child?

I am responsible for the care of HIV-infected and exposed children at my hospital in Curicica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We have about 70 infected children. I care for an 11-year-old girl who was ...
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Differences in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Anti-p24 Reactivities in Serum of HIV-1-Infected and Uninfected Subjects: Analysis of Indeterminate Western Blot ...

Anti-p24 reactions in sera from 42 human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-l)-infected and 36 uninfected people with indeterminate Western blot antibody tests for HIV-1 were studied. Anti-p24 ...