Improved detection of acute HIV-1 infection in sub-Saharan Africa: development of a risk score algorithm.

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Published in AIDS on October 18, 2007

Authors

Kimberly A Powers1, William C Miller, Christopher D Pilcher, Clement Mapanje, Francis E A Martinson, Susan A Fiscus, David A Chilongozi, David Namakhwa, Matthew A Price, Shannon R Galvin, Irving F Hoffman, Myron S Cohen, Malawi UNC Project Acute HIV Study Team

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7435, USA. powersk@email.unc.edu

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