[Frequency of blood donors with HIV antibodies in the Fundação Hemocentro de São Paulo].
The frequency of "ELISA"-positive blood donors tested for HIV antibodies at Fundação Hemocentro de São Paulo was 0.45% (526/116,354). Of these positive donors 38 in 100 tested (0.38% were confirmed by Western blot, giving a projected frequency of truly positive HIV antibody and "ELISA"-positive) of 0.171%. The higher the absorbance in the "ELISA" test the bigger the probability of having a positive band (p24) in the Western blot.
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D001782:Blood Donors; D015153:Blotting, Western; D001938:Brazil; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans
Freqüência de doadores portadores do anticorpo antivírus HIV na Fundação Hemocentro de São Paulo.