Open AccessEvaluation of rapid tests for anti-HIV detection in Brazil
Author(s) -
Orlando C. Ferreira,
Carmen V. Ferreira,
Maristela Riedel,
Marcya Regina Visii Widolin,
Aristides Barbosa-júnior
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
aids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.195
H-Index - 216
eISSN - 1473-5571
pISSN - 0269-9370
DOI - 10.1097/01.aids.0000191494.51489.75
Subject(s) - seroconversion , gold standard (test) , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , prospective cohort study , immunology , virology
This assessment in Brazil was to evaluate the performance of commercially available HIV rapid test (RT) against the gold standard testing and to establish a highly sensitive and specific RT algorithm for HIV diagnosis.