| Literature DB >> 12354890 |
Corey Casper1, Elizabeth Krantz, Heather Taylor, Julie Dalessio, David Carrell, Anna Wald, Lawrence Corey, Rhoda Ashley.
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The performance of a human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and selective subsequent use of an HHV-8 immunofluorescence assay (IFA) was tested in persons unlikely to be infected with HHV-8 and those who had HHV-8 detected in their saliva. The IFA was performed on samples within a range of EIA optical densities (0.15 to 0.35) where there was considerable overlap between HHV-8-infected and uninfected individuals. The sensitivity of the testing strategy was 88%, with a specificity of 97%.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12354890 PMCID: PMC130660 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.10.3822-3825.2002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948