Article: Can you trust tests used to identify AIDS virus infection? (Common Sense About AIDS)

Article: Scientists develop sensitive method for detecting genetic ...
PR Newswire;  May 16, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... sensitive test for the AIDS virus that detects the ... augment or replace the ELISA and Western blot ... directly indentify the AIDS virus, the new method ... designed to stop the AIDS virus from converting its ... relatively inexpensive ELISA test -- depends ...

Article: 2nd Worker Infected With AIDS Virus in Lab Accident
The Washington Post;  October 9, 1987 ;     681 words ... ... concentrated solution of the AIDS virus. The NIH report ... test, called an ELISA test, turned up ... workers handling the AIDS virus are being made at ... try to isolate the AIDS virus from his cells and ... worker. A second ELISA test and a more accurate ...

Article: STUDY SHOWS AIDS VIRUS MAY GO LONG UNDETECTED
The Boston Globe;  June 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... risk gay men harbored the AIDS virus silently in their systems for ... Los Angeles, found that the AIDS virus could be cultured from the ... AIDS antibody tests, called ELISA and Western Blot. In Pattern ... Certain genes within the AIDS virus are known to accelerate its ...

Article: Biotech Research Laboratories Inc. reports that the Biotech-Du ...
PR Newswire;  April 30, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... detecting antibodies to the AIDS virus is the first to be licensed ... identification of the HIV (AIDS Virus) antibodies than the ELISA (enzyme linked immunosorbent ... Research Laboratories, "The ELISA antibody tests now in use to ...

Article: Md. Finds Rare Form Of AIDS Virus in 4; All ...
The Washington Post;  August 3, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... of a rare form of the AIDS virus have been diagnosed in ... similar to the more common AIDS virus but can take twice as ... procedure, called the Elisa test, which is able ... with the more common AIDS virus, but it can linger in ...

Article: Du Pont Co. claims that Biotech-Du Pont HIV Western Blot test kit ...
PR Newswire;  April 30, 1987 ;     695 words ... ... detecting antibodies to the AIDS virus is the first to be licensed ... technology than the widely used ELISA (Enzyme Linked Immunoassay) tests. The ELISA antibody tests now in use ... blood found positive by the ELISA screening test is discarded ...

Article: Cambridge BioScience Corp. presents results from an improved test ...
PR Newswire;  June 25, 1986 ;     700+ words ... ... antibodies against the AIDS virus HTLV-III/LAV at the ... recombinant protein used in an ELISA assay to test human sera ... commercially available ELISA kits. (These kits employ ... expression and purification of AIDS virus proteins looks favorable ...