| dc.contributor |
Médecins sans Frontiérès, Medical Department, Brussels Operational Center, Brussels, Belgium. |
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| dc.creator |
Chaillet, Pascale |
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| dc.creator |
Tayler-Smith, Katie |
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| dc.creator |
Zachariah, Rony |
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| dc.creator |
Duclos, Nanfack |
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| dc.creator |
Moctar, Diallo |
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| dc.creator |
Beelaert, Greet |
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| dc.creator |
Fransen, Katrien |
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| dc.date |
2010-09 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2017-01-31T07:20:12Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2017-01-31T07:20:12Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Evaluation of four rapid tests for diagnosis and differentiation of HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections in Guinea-Conakry, West Africa. 2010, 104 (9):571-6 Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. |
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| dc.identifier |
1878-3503 |
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| dc.identifier |
20708123 |
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| dc.identifier |
10.1016/j.trstmh.2010.05.007 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10144/112714 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/handle/10144/112714 |
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| dc.identifier |
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10144/112714 |
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| dc.description |
With both HIV-1 and HV-2 prevalent in Guinea-Conakry, accurate diagnosis and differentiation is crucial for treatment purposes. Thus, four rapid HIV tests were evaluated for their HIV-1 and HIV-2 diagnostic and discriminative capacity for use in Guinea-Conakry. These included SD Bioline HIV 1/2 3.0 (Standard Diagnostics Inc.), Genie II HIV1/HIV2 (Bio-Rad), First Response HIV Card Test 1-2.0 (PMC Medical) and Immunoflow HIV1-HIV2 (Core Diagnostics). Results were compared with gold standard tests (INNO-LIA HIV-I/II Score) and NEW LAV BLOT II (Bio-Rad). Four hundred and forty three sequential stored HIV-positive serum samples, of known HIV-type, were evaluated. Genie II HIV1/HIV2, Immunoflow HIV1-HIV2 and SD Bioline HIV 1/2 3.0 had 100% sensitivity (95% CI, 98.9-100%) while for First Response HIV Card Test 1-2.0 this was 99.5% (95% CI, 98.2%-99.9%). In terms of discriminatory capacity, Genie II HIV1/HIV2 identified 382/ 384(99.5%) HIV-1 samples, 49/ 52(95%) HIV-2 and 7/7(100%) HIV-positive untypable samples. Immunoflow HIV1-HIV2 identified 99% HIV-1, 67% HIV-2 and all HIV-positive untypable samples. First Response HIV Card Test 1-2.0 identified 94% HIV-1, 64% HIV-2 and 57% HIV-positive untypable samples. SD-Bioline HIV 1/2 3.0 was the worst overall performer identifying 65% HIV-1, 69% HIV-2 and all HIV-positive untypable samples. The use of SD Bioline HIV 1/2 3.0 (the current standard in Guinea-Conakry) as a discriminatory HIV test is poor and may be best replaced by Immunoflow HIV1-HIV2. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.rights |
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| dc.title |
Evaluation of four rapid tests for diagnosis and differentiation of HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections in Guinea-Conakry, West Africa. |
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