Conference Coverage (Retrovirus)
Infected People Who Test Negative Carry Normal Virus
Published in AIDS Weekly, March 1st, 1999
AIDS surveillance by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has turned up several people who test negative on most FDA-licensed HIV screening assays and on the usually-definitive Western blot assay.
It had been feared that these rare individuals were infected with a mutant virus that was extremely adept at hiding from the immune system - and from HIV tests. But extensive studies by CDC researcher D.L. Ellenberger and colleagues suggest that this is not the case.
"These data suggest that the lack of a detectable...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (1999-03-01)
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