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Use of rapid and conventional testing technologies for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 serologic screening in a
Ginamarie Foglia1, G Donald Royster, K Monique Wasunna
1U.S. Army Medical Research Unit--Kenya.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|August 7, 2004
Abstract:
We report a prospective comparison of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 testing by enzyme immunoassay and Western blot with four rapid tests of 486 subjects performed in rural Kenya. Rapid test sensitivity was 100%. Specificity ranged from 99.1 to 100%. Combined use of two Food and Drug Administration-approved rapid tests yielded a single false-positive result.
