ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2014
Association of inconclusive sera for human immunodeficiency virus infection with malaria and Epstein-Barr virus infection in Central Africa.
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- Field evaluation of capillary blood and oral-fluid HIV self-tests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.PloS one · 2020Article
- Hepatitis D virus infection, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in The Gambia.Journal of viral hepatitis · 2019Article
- Differential influence of race and environment on indeterminate reactivities to non-treponemal and treponemal antigens by immuno-chromatographic dual syphilis rapid test.The Pan African medical journal · 2019Article
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Abstract
Among 464 sera from adults in Cameroon, 56 (12.1%) gave inconclusive HIV serology. All were negative for HIV-1 DNA; 44.6% (n = 25) were significantly associated with Plasmodium (42.8%) or Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) (17.8%) infections. In Central Africa, sera giving inconclusive results for HIV are frequently associated with malaria, EBV infection, or both.
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