Assessment of Recent HIV-1 Infection by a Line Immunoassay for HIV-1/2 Confirmation (2007)
Jörg Schüpbach, Martin D. Gebhardt, Zuzana Tomasik, Christoph Niederhauser, Sabine Yerly, Philippe Bürgisser, ...
BackgroundKnowledge of the number of recent HIV infections is important for epidemiologic surveillance. Over the past decade approaches have been developed to estimate this number by testing...
Assessment of Recent HIV-1 Infection by a Line Immunoassay for HIV-1/2 Confirmation
Schüpbach, Jörg, Gebhardt, Martin D, Tomasik, Zuzana, Niederhauser, Christoph, Yerly, Sabine, Bürgisser, Philippe, ...
Jörg Schüpbach and colleagues show that a second-generation Western blot antibody test used to confirm HIV infection can also be used to determine rates of recent HIV infection.