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Pap tests for HIV-infected women have high accuracy rate
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 16th, 2006
Investigators in the United States "examined the accuracy of the Papanicolaou (Pap) test among women with and women at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection."
"Pap test results and colposcopy findings were compared for 189 HIV-infected women and 95 HIV-uninfected women from the Baltimore HIV Epidemiology Research (HER) study site who were followed up semiannually from 1993 through 1999. Correlations were examined using data from individual visits that were analyzed using generalized estimating equation methods," explained J.R. Anderson and colleagues of Johns Hopkins...
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