Near misdiagnosis of acute HIV-infection with ELISA-Western Blot scheme: Time for mindset change

Some HIV-infection diagnostic guidelines and health care providers still rely on the ELISA-Western blot diagnostic algorithm. We present a near misdiagnosis case with discordant test results and a lack of proper counseling. We point out the need for an assertive update of health care providers on di...

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Autores principales: Medina-De la Garza, Carlos Eduardo, Castro-Corona, María de los Ángeles, Salinas-Carmona, Mario César
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34094866
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01168
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author Medina-De la Garza, Carlos Eduardo
Castro-Corona, María de los Ángeles
Salinas-Carmona, Mario César
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description Some HIV-infection diagnostic guidelines and health care providers still rely on the ELISA-Western blot diagnostic algorithm. We present a near misdiagnosis case with discordant test results and a lack of proper counseling. We point out the need for an assertive update of health care providers on diagnostic HIV-tests
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spelling pubmed-81672272021-06-05 Near misdiagnosis of acute HIV-infection with ELISA-Western Blot scheme: Time for mindset change Medina-De la Garza, Carlos Eduardo Castro-Corona, María de los Ángeles Salinas-Carmona, Mario César IDCases Case Report Some HIV-infection diagnostic guidelines and health care providers still rely on the ELISA-Western blot diagnostic algorithm. We present a near misdiagnosis case with discordant test results and a lack of proper counseling. We point out the need for an assertive update of health care providers on diagnostic HIV-tests Elsevier 2021-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8167227/ /pubmed/34094866 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01168 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Near misdiagnosis of acute HIV-infection with ELISA-Western Blot scheme: Time for mindset change
title Near misdiagnosis of acute HIV-infection with ELISA-Western Blot scheme: Time for mindset change
title_full Near misdiagnosis of acute HIV-infection with ELISA-Western Blot scheme: Time for mindset change
title_fullStr Near misdiagnosis of acute HIV-infection with ELISA-Western Blot scheme: Time for mindset change
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title_short Near misdiagnosis of acute HIV-infection with ELISA-Western Blot scheme: Time for mindset change
title_sort near misdiagnosis of acute hiv-infection with elisa-western blot scheme: time for mindset change
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167227/
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