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Screening for acute HIV infection: lessons learned.

Stekler J, Maenza J, Stevens CE, Swenson PD, Coombs RW, Wood RW, Campbell MS, Nickle DC, Collier AC, Golden MR

Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. jstekler@u.washington.edu

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) nucleic acid testing is increasingly being used by researchers and public health screening programs to identify highly infectious, HIV antibody-negative individuals with acute HIV infection. We present cases to illustrate unusual instances of acute HIV screening, which include "window period" testing and the discovery of low-level HIV RNA.

Published 5 January 2007 in Clin Infect Dis, 44(3): 459-61.
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