Quality AIDS Testing: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Regulation and Business Opportunities of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, Washington, DC, October 19, 1987, Volumen 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 118 páginas |
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AIDS testing AIDS virus American Pathologists Antibodies Present Absent antibody testing antibody-positive persons antigens bands best-case Blood Banks Blood Donors CAP data Carlson Chairman WYDEN clinical College of American Colonel BURKE confirmatory tests costs criteria diagnosis Don Burke EIA test ELISA Epitope estimates evaluation false negative false positive rate Federal going HIV antibodies HIV infection HIV testing Human Immunodeficiency Virus incorrectly identified individuals laboratory performance labs whose performance Medical Meyer MIIKE number of false number of true optimal testing panel participant laboratories Pauker Peoria Percent With AIDS performed by labs POLESKY positive results positive specimens positive test results positive Western blot positives would increase Present Absent Positive prevalence problems proficiency testing proficiency testing program proteins quality assurance quality control reactive reagents Red Cross screening program screening test sensitivity and specificity standards subcommittee SUBCOMMITTEE ON REGULATION testimony true positives truly infected U.S. Army WATSON Western blot test
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Página 106 - Professor of Internal Medicine and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He was also Adjunct Professor of Comparative Medicine at Texas A &.
Página 61 - Under ideal circumstances, the probability that a testing sequence will be falsely positive in a population with a low rate of infection ranges from less than 1 in 100,000 (Minnesota Department of Health, unpublished data) to an estimated 5 in 100,000...
Página 36 - Horovitz' statement may be found in the appendix.] Chairman Wyden. Doctor, thank you very much.
Página 61 - The Red Cross standard applies only to whether the blood donor will be notified that he/she has had a positive antibody test to HIV. All repeatedly positive EIAs are discarded, regardless of the results of Western blot testing. If some antibodies to HIV antigens are detected but not against at least one protein from each of the three types of HIV antigens, the results are reported to the blood bank as "indeterminate...
Página 58 - HIV in the specimen, there will be little enzyme-linked antibodies found bound to the HIV antigens. If the specimen contains no antibodies to HIV, all bound antibodies will be the enzyme-linked antibodies from the test kit. Western blot testing Is based on identifying antibodies to the major proteins of the AIDS virus. Purified HIV antigens are separated electrophoretically on a gel, which results in their separation by their molecular weights. They are then blotted onto special paper. A sample of...
Página 106 - Management from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Página 61 - Conference from the Office of Medical Applications of Research, National Institutes of Health, stated that p24/25 together with gpAl (a "gag" protein and an "env" protein) "Is unequivocally positive.
Página 44 - False Positive D True Negative Sensitivity - A/(A + C) Specificity - D/(B + D) Predictive Value Of A Positive Result, Or Probability That A Positive Result Is Correct - A/(A + B) prevalence of HIV Infection that CDC has suggested may Justify premarital testing (<•• footnote 11, supra).