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Errors in ‘BED’-Derived Estimates of HIV Incidence Will Vary by Place, Time and Age

BACKGROUND: The BED Capture Enzyme Immunoassay, believed to distinguish recent HIV infections, is being used to estimate HIV incidence, although an important property of the test – how specificity changes with time since infection – has not been not measured. METHODS: We construct hypothetical scena...

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Autores principales: Hallett, Timothy B., Ghys, Peter, Bärnighausen, Till, Yan, Ping, Garnett, Geoff P.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19479050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005720