[SHCS and the laboratory diagnosis of HIV infection--from the development of the HIV Western blot to virus quantification and clinically relevant individual virus characterization].

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The first reliable diagnostic tools for the diagnosis of HIV infection, Western blot and ELISA, were created 20 years ago in the U.S., using initially sera from AIDS patients diagnosed clinically in Switzerland. In Swiss laboratories the diagnosis of HIV infection today is established by using 4th generation screening tests which detect both antibodies and p24 antigen while in the doctor's surgery a rapid...

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