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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...
Autores principales: | Wolpaw, Benjamin J, Mathews, Catherine, Chopra, Mickey, Hardie, Diana, de Azevedo, Virginia, Jennings, Karen, Lurie, Mark N |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2010
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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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