Open AccessImmunological markers for identifying recent HIV infection in North-West India
Author(s) -
Chandar Kanta Chauhan,
P V M Lakshmi,
Vivek Sagar,
Aman Sharma,
Sunil Arora,
Rajesh Kumar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 87
ISSN - 0971-5916
DOI - 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_2007_18
Subject(s) - avidity , medicine , population , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , incidence (geometry) , immunology , coinfection , demography , environmental health , antigen , physics , sociology , optics
Being more efficient and widely used, limiting antigen (LAg)-avidity enzyme immunoassay (EIA) based on the recent infection testing algorithm (RITA) has been developed for differentiating recent and established HIV-1 infection. So far, LAg-avidity EIA has not been validated among the Indian population. Hence, the present study was planned to identify recent HIV infections in high risk patients in the North-West region of India using modified LAg-avidity RITA.