Extensive tests for extermination: Need for incorporation of molecular detection methods of human immunodeficiency virus in screening algorithm in tertiary hospitals in India

Conclusion: Patients in tertiary referral center constitute high-risk population and should be screened with 4th-generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay which incorporates p24 antigen. Those which are found indeterminate should have molecular testing by nucleic acid amplification test or real-time polymerase chain reaction, as our study has demonstrated that 1.02% of these cases may harbor acute HIV infection.
Source: Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research