Evaluation of a single round polymerase chain reaction assay using dried blood spots for diagnosis of HIV-1 infection in infants in an African setting

Table 2 A 2 × 2 table for performance of HIV-1 pol FP-DBS PCR assay on archived FP-DBS samples

Samples were obtained from infants of known HIV-1 infection status (56 HIV-1 positive and 59 HIV-1 negative). The sensitivity of HIV-1 pol PCR FP-DBS assay on archived FP-DBS was 92.8% and specificity of 98.3%.

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