Last month, a number of clinics and healthcare centers in the New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco regions reported a higher-than-expected incidence of false positives on the saliva-based OraQuick ...

Since the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was identified in 1983, roughly 91.4 million people around the world have contracted the virus and an additional 44.1 million have died from related causes ...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Orasure Technologies said its OraQuick rapid HIV-1 antibody test produced "substantially fewer false-positive results" than traditional lab-based HIV tests or other FDA-approved ...

During ARS, the viral load is very high—often >100,000 copies/mL. The standard test to detect ARS is the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). False-positive HIV viral loads do ...

Sample blood collection tube with HIV test label on HIV infection screening test form. (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Room's Studio) A non-reactive HIV test result generally means good news – you ...

HIV rapid testing algorithms (RTAs) using any two orthogonal rapid tests (RTs) allow for on-site confirmation of infection. RTs vary in performance characteristics therefore the selection of RTs in an ...