Variation in Specificity of HIV Rapid Diagnostic Tests over Place and Time: An Analysis of Discordancy Data Using a Bayesian Approach

BACKGROUND: Recent trends to earlier access to anti-retroviral treatment underline the importance of accurate HIV diagnosis. The WHO HIV testing strategy recommends the use of two or three rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) combined in an algorithm and assume a population is serologically stable over tim...

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Autores principales: Klarkowski, Derryck, Glass, Kathryn, O’Brien, Daniel, Lokuge, Kamalini, Piriou, Erwan, Shanks, Leslie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24282615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081656