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Comment
. 2017 Jun 19;20(1):22042.
doi: 10.7448/IAS.20.1.22042.

Alert, but not alarmed - a comment on "Towards more accurate HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-site evaluation of HIV RDTs and risk factors for false positives (Kosack et al. 2017)"

Cheryl C Johnson  1 , Anita Sands  2 , Willy Urassa  2 , Rachel Baggaley  1
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Alert, but not alarmed - a comment on "Towards more accurate HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-site evaluation of HIV RDTs and risk factors for false positives (Kosack et al. 2017)"

Cheryl C Johnson et al. J Int AIDS Soc. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Africa; HIV; diagnostic; false positive; misdiagnosis; quality; test.

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