False-positive HIV test results

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.), Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention.
• Description:
  When a person is not infected with HIV but receives a positive test result, that result is considered a false positive. Generally, HIV tests have high specificity, meaning that there are few false-positive results and most uninfected individuals are classified as uninfected by the test. If 1,000 uninfected people are tested with an HIV test and 4 have false-positive results, the HIV test’s specificity is 99.6% (996 true negative test results/1,000 HIV uninfected persons tested).
  
  cdc-hiv-factsheet-false-positive-test-results.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Diagnosis, Differential False Positive Reactions HIV Infections/diagnosis
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet ; Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  2 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:fc484092076db74bc93719b5d608a2211a16356b27e4a68d1f66535cf3e5ff1f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/60906/cdc_60906_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 130.26 KB ]