Using tests for recent infection to estimate incidence: Problems and prospects for HIV

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Welte, A ^a,b   McWalter, T A ^a,b   Laeyendecker, O ^c,d   Hallett, T B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; MORBIDITY; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; UNCERTAINTY; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 77954249986     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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