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Alternative Algorithms for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Diagnosis Using Tests That Are Licensed in the United States by S. M. Owen; C. Yang; T. Spira; C. Y. Ou; C. P. Pau; B. S. Parekh; D. Candal; D. Kuehl; M. S. Kennedy; D. Rudolph; W. Luo; N. Delatorre; S. Masciotra; M. L. Kalish; F. Cowart; T. Barnett; R. Lal; J. S. McDougal is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## ABSTRACT Serodiagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States has traditionally relied on a sequential two-test algorithm: an initial screen with an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and reflex testing of EIA-reactive specimens with a more specific supplemental test such as Western blotting or immunofluorescence. The supplemental tests are tedious, subjective, and expensive. In addition, there have been major improvements in the performance and accuracy of the EIA tests as well as the introduction of rapid serologic tests (RT) and HIV nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT). Related to these improvements is the possibility that alternative algorithms using combinations of currently approved HIV tests may function as well as if not better than the current algorithm, with more flexibility, improved accuracy, and lower cost. To this end, we evaluated the performance of 12 currently licensed tests and 1 in-house HIV test (6 EIA, 4 RT, and 3 NAAT) on panels of plasma samples from HIV-infected ( __n__ = 621 HIV type 1 [HIV-1] and 34 HIV-2) and uninfected ( __n__ = 513) people and of sequential specimens from people early in seroconversion (183 specimens from 15 pa
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- Author
- S. M. Owen; C. Yang; T. Spira; C. Y. Ou; C. P. Pau; B. S. Parekh; D. Candal; D. Kuehl; M. S. Kennedy; D. Rudolph; W. Luo; N. Delatorre; S. Masciotra; M. L. Kalish; F. Cowart; T. Barnett; R. Lal; J. S. McDougal
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)