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Hospital-based evaluation of two rapid human immunodeficiency virus antibody screening tests
R Kannangai1, S Ramalingam, P K Selvaraj
1Department of Clinical Virology, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore 632 004, India.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|September 2, 2000
Abstract:
Two rapid human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening assays, HIV TRI-DOT and HIV-SPOT were compared with standard enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays according to a testing algorithm. Sensitivities and specificities in the real-time evaluation were 99.5 and 99.9% for TRI-DOT and 98.2 and 99.7% for HIV-SPOT, respectively. These two tests are suitable for use where facilities and laboratory expertise are limited.