The failure of routine rapid HIV testing: a case study of improving low sensitivity in the field

BACKGROUND: The rapid HIV antibody test is the diagnostic tool of choice in low and middle-income countries. Previous evidence suggests that rapid HIV diagnostic tests may underperform in the field, failing to detect a substantial number of infections. A research study inadvertently discovered that...

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Autores principales: Wolpaw, Benjamin J, Mathews, Catherine, Chopra, Mickey, Hardie, Diana, de Azevedo, Virginia, Jennings, Karen, Lurie, Mark N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20307310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-73

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20307310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-73

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