Low specificities of HIV diagnostic tests caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2836-2839

  Lejon, V ^a   Mumba Ngoyi, D ^a,b   Ilunga, M ^c   Beelaert, G ^a   Maes, I ^a   Buscher P ^a   Fransen, K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale   (Democratic Republic Congo)

^c Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africain (PNLTHA)   (Democratic Republic Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ALGORITHM; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EVALUATION STUDY; HIV INFECTIONS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HIV; HIV ANTIBODIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

EID: 77955461893     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00456-10     Document Type: Article

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