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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...
Autores principales: | Hallett, Timothy B., Ghys, Peter, Bärnighausen, Till, Yan, Ping, Garnett, Geoff P. |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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