Title: [Clinical evaluation of HIV-1/2 antibody rapid tests.].
Abstract:BACKGROUND To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of HIV-1/2 antibody rapid tests prior to licensing. METHODS Four hundred forty, 264 and 300 blood samples were collected from normal blood donors...BACKGROUND To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of HIV-1/2 antibody rapid tests prior to licensing. METHODS Four hundred forty, 264 and 300 blood samples were collected from normal blood donors, drug addicted individuals and HIV infected patients, respectively. All the samples were tested with 17 kinds of HIV-1/2 antibody rapid tests prior to licensing. The sensitivity and specificity of each test were calculated. RESULTS The sensitivity for all evaluated rapid tests was 100% for detecting 300 strong positive samples for HIV antibody; the specificity for all evaluated rapid tests was within the range of 97.7%-100% for detecting 440 samples from normal blood donors; the sensitivity and specificity of all tests were within the range of 70.3%-95.1% and 59.1%-100% respectively for detecting 264 samples from HIV high risk population. CONCLUSION The sensitivity and specificity of different tests were different and the samples from HIV high risk population may be very useful for evaluation of the quality of HIV-1/2 antibody rapid tests.Read More
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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