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Article: Recent findings from V. Novitsky and co-authors highlight research in HIV/AIDS.
- Article from:
- AIDS Weekly
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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"Estimation of HIV incidence rates is important for timing interventions, planning prevention studies, and monitoring the epidemic. This requires accurate estimation of the ''recency period'' (also known as the ''window period'') between seroconversion and achievement of specific detectable levels of anti-HIV antibody titers, such as the standardized optical density (SOD) in the early phase of HIV-1 infection," investigators in the United States report (see also HIV/AIDS).
"To obtain a better understanding of interpatient variation of the recency period, prospective measurements of antiviral antibody titers in the early phase of HIV-1 subtype C infection were ...