A simple and inexpensive particle agglutination test to distinguish recent from established HIV-1 infection

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 459-465

  Li, Hong ^a   Ketema, Fassil ^b   Sill, Anne M ^b   Kreisel, Kristen M ^b   Cleghorn, Farley R ^c   Constantine, Niel T ^b  

^a The China Scholarship Council   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Palladium Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Detuned; HIV; Incidence; Particle agglutination; Sensitive less sensitive; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIGEN;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLADISTICS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; ROC CURVE; SEROCONVERSION; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS ETIOLOGY;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547837692     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2006.12.010     Document Type: Article

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