A simple and inexpensive particle agglutination test to distinguish recent from established HIV-1 infection
Author(s) -
Hong Li,
Fassil Ketema,
Anne Sill,
Kristen Kreisel,
Farley Cleghorn,
Niel T. Constantine
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2006.12.010
Subject(s) - seroconversion , medicine , serial dilution , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , virology , direct agglutination test , cutoff , immunology , antibody , serology , pathology , alternative medicine , physics , quantum mechanics
We sought to modify the Serodia HIV-1/HIV-2 particle agglutination assay (PA), a simple and cost-effective HIV assay that is used globally for the detection of HIV antibodies, as a sensitive/less sensitive test (S/LS) to identify recently infected individuals and to estimate HIV incidence.
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