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More evidence that rapid ‘combination’ test often fails to detect acute HIV infection
Roger Pebody, 2012-10-23 08:40:00
A rapid, point-of-care test, which aims to reduce the ‘window period’ through the detection of both antibodies and p24 antigen has poor performance in a UK clinical setting, Clifford Bryn Jones and colleagues report in the advance online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
These data appear to confirm previous reports that while the Determine HIV-1/2 Ag/Ab Combo can reliably identify people with established HIV infection, it delivers false negative results to most people who have very recent HIV infection.
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