HIV-1 infection in early seroconversion stage missed by rapid or ELISA tests - Two case reports

Neerja Jindal; Rajiv Tiwari; Aruna Aggarwal; Lovedhi Aggarwal

HIV-1 infection in early seroconversion stage missed by rapid or ELISA tests - Two case reports

Neerja Jindal
, Rajiv Tiwari
, Aruna Aggarwal
, Lovedhi Aggarwal

Family Medicine

Stony Brook University

Government Medical College, Amritsar

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Abstract

Two cases of HIV-1 infection demonstrating lack of sensitivity of rapid and ELISA screening tests are being reported. The first case was that of a 23 years old female whose recent infection was picked up by ELISA (Tetra ELISA) test but missed by two rapid tests (Comb AIDS and HIV Tridot). The 2^nd case presumably too in early seroconversion phase, was that of a 39 years old male. In this case ELISA test failed to diagnose the infection while the two rapid tests were found to be strongly positive.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	395-396
Number of pages	2
Journal	Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology
Volume	48
Issue number	3
State	Published - Jul 2005

Keywords

ELISA test
Rapid test
Seroconversion phase

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HIV-1 infection in early seroconversion stage missed by rapid or ELISA tests - Two case reports

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