HIV diagnostic testing: Evolving technology and testing strategies

Topics in Antiviral Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-22

  Daskalakis, Demetre ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

BLOOD; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HIV ANTIBODIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80755141853     PISSN: 21615861     EISSN: 21615853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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