Article
Use of the sensitive/less-sensitive (detuned) EIA strategy for targeting genetic analysis of HIV-1 to recently infected blood donors.
AIDS (London, England) - 4 Jan 2002
Machado Daisy M, Delwart Eric L, Diaz Ricardo S, de Oliveira Carlos F, Alves Katia, Rawal Bhupat D, Sullivan Marian, Gwinn Marta, Clark Kenneth A, Busch Michael P
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To corroborate the validity of the recently developed sensitive/less sensitive (S/LS) dual enzyme immunoassay (EIA) strategy for the detection of recently infected individuals and to genetically analyze recently transmitted strains of HIV-1 in a US blood donor population. DESIGN: The S/LS EIA strategy was used to identify 33 recently infected subjects among 281 enrolled HIV-1 seropositive blood donors...
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