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False Positive HIV Diagnoses in Resource Limited Settings: Operational Lessons Learned for HIV Programmes
BACKGROUND: Access to HIV diagnosis is life-saving; however the use of rapid diagnostic tests in combination is vulnerable to wrongly diagnosing HIV infection when both screening tests give a false positive result. Misclassification of HIV patients can also occur due to poor quality control, adminis...
Autores principales: | Shanks, Leslie, Klarkowski, Derryck, O'Brien, Daniel P. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3603939/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23527284 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059906 |
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