HIV types and testing

✍ Scribed by Angus G Dalgleish

• Book ID: 103972751
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 522 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0952-7915
• DOI: 10.1016/0952-7915(91)90018-v

✦ Synopsis

The past year has seen the discovery of new isolates which do not readily fit into the established categories HIV-1, HIV-2 and SIV, as well as the availability of new assays including the use of the polymerase chain reaction. New combination enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays can detect viruses from two or more groups where specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays have been developed using peptides and monoclonal antibodies.