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Accounting for False Positive HIV Tests: Is Visceral Leishmaniasis Responsible?
BACKGROUND: Co-infection with HIV and visceral leishmaniasis is an important consideration in treatment of either disease in endemic areas. Diagnosis of HIV in resource-limited settings relies on rapid diagnostic tests used together in an algorithm. A limitation of the HIV diagnostic algorithm is th...
Autores principales: | Shanks, Leslie, Ritmeijer, Koert, Piriou, Erwan, Siddiqui, M. Ruby, Kliescikova, Jarmila, Pearce, Neil, Ariti, Cono, Muluneh, Libsework, Masiga, Johnson, Abebe, Almaz |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26161864 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132422 |
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