Title
Laboratory evaluation of a dual-path platform assay for rapid pointof-care HIV and syphilis testing
Date Issued
01 February 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
American Society for Microbiology
Abstract
We assessed the laboratory performance of the Chembio dual-path platform HIV-syphilis rapid immunodiagnostic test and electronic reader for detection of HIV and Treponema pallidum antibodies in 450 previously characterized serum specimens. For visual or electronic reader HIV antibody detection, the sensitivity was 100% and the specificity was 98.7%. For visual T. pallidum antibody detection, the test sensitivity was 94.7% and the specificity was 100.0%; with the electronic reader, the sensitivity was 94.7% and the specificity was 99.7%.
Start page
492
End page
494
Volume
54
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas Salud pública, Salud ambiental Epidemiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84956606392
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
ISSN of the container
00951137
Sponsor(s)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - R01AI099727
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