HIV Incidence in Rural South Africa: Comparison of Estimates from Longitudinal Surveillance and Cross-Sectional cBED Assay Testing

BACKGROUND: The BED IgG-Capture Enzyme Immunoassay (cBED assay), a test of recent HIV infection, has been used to estimate HIV incidence in cross-sectional HIV surveys. However, there has been concern that the assay overestimates HIV incidence to an unknown extent because it falsely classifies some...

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Autores principales: Bärnighausen, Till, Wallrauch, Claudia, Welte, Alex, McWalter, Thomas A., Mbizana, Nhlanhla, Viljoen, Johannes, Graham, Natalie, Tanser, Frank, Puren, Adrian, Newell, Marie-Louise
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18982059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003640

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18982059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003640

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