Frequency of false positive rapid HIV serologic tests in African men and women receiving PrEP for HIV prevention: Implications for programmatic roll-out of biomedical interventions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Ndase, Patrick ^a   Celum, Connie ^a   Kidoguchi, Lara ^a   Ronald, Allan ^b,c   Fife, Kenneth H ^d   Bukusi, Elizabeth ^a,e,f,g   Donnell, Deborah ^a,h   Baeten, Jared M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^f KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMTRICITABINE PLUS TENOFOVIR DISOPROXIL; PLACEBO; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HIV RAPID TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VIRUS LOAD; WESTERN BLOTTING; HIV INFECTIONS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84929486161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123005     Document Type: Article

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