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The value of confirmatory testing in early infant HIV diagnosis programmes in South Africa: A cost-effectiveness analysis

BACKGROUND: The specificity of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) used for early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV infection is <100%, leading some HIV-uninfected infants to be incorrectly identified as HIV-infected. The World Health Organization recommends that infants undergo a second NAAT to...

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Autores principales: Dunning, Lorna, Francke, Jordan A., Mallampati, Divya, MacLean, Rachel L., Penazzato, Martina, Hou, Taige, Myer, Landon, Abrams, Elaine J., Walensky, Rochelle P., Leroy, Valériane, Freedberg, Kenneth A., Ciaranello, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5697827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29161262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002446