Contamination with HIV antibody may be responsible for false positive results in specimens tested on automated platforms running HIV 4th generation assays in a region of high HIV prevalence

INTRODUCTION: In South Africa where the prevalence of HIV infection is very high, 4(th) generation HIV antibody/p24 antigen combo immunoassays are the tests of choice for laboratory based screening. Testing is usually performed in clinical pathology laboratories on automated analysers. To investigat...

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Autores principales: Hardie, Diana Ruth, Korsman, Stephen N., Hsiao, Nei-Yuan, Morobadi, Molefi Daniel, Vawda, Sabeehah, Goedhals, Dominique
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5536287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28759622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182167

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