Should South Africa be performing nucleic acid testing on HIV enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay-negative samples?

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on July 07, 2010

Authors

Natasha Gous1, Lesley Scott, Olga Perovic, Francios Venter, Wendy Stevens

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, School of Pathology, University of Witwatersrand, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa.

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