Publication of MMWR Recommendations and Reports on
"Interpretation and Use of the Western Blot Assay for Serodiagnosis
of
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infections"
A new MMWR Recommendations and Reports entitled, "Interpretation
and
Use of the Western Blot Assay for Serodiagnosis of Human
Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infections" (1), was published July
21,
1989. The Association of State and Territorial Public Health
Laboratory
Directors and CDC collaborated in preparing this report; it
describes
various interpretive criteria associated with the Western blot test
for
human immunodeficiency virus type (HIV-1), evaluates the
sensitivity
and specificity of these criteria as tools for public health
practice,
and provides recommendations for using the Western blot and for
reporting results.
Reference
CDC. Interpretation and use of the Western blot assay for
serodiagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infections.
MMWR
1989;38(no. S-7).
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