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1 February 2007

Volume 44, Number 3
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2007;44:459–461
© 2006 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
1058-4838/2007/4403-0027$15.00
DOI: 10.1086/510747
HIV/AIDS BRIEF REPORT

Screening for Acute HIV Infection: Lessons Learned

Joanne Stekler,1,4

Janine Maenza,1

Claire E. Stevens,1

Paul D. Swenson,5

Robert W. Coombs,1,2,4

Robert W. Wood,1,4,5

Mary S. Campbell,1

David C. Nickle,3,4

Ann C. Collier,1,4 and

Matthew R. Golden1,4,5

Departments of 1Medicine, 2Laboratory Medicine, and 3Microbiology, and 4Center for AIDS and STDs, University of Washington, and 5Public Health–Seattle & King County, Seattle, Washington

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) nucleic acid testing is increasingly being used by researchers and public health screening programs to identify highly infectious, HIV antibody–negative individuals with acute HIV infection. We present cases to illustrate unusual instances of acute HIV screening, which include “window period” testing and the discovery of low‐level HIV RNA.

Received 11 August 2006; accepted 27 September 2006; electronically published 20 December 2006.

Reprints and correspondence: Dr. Joanne Stekler, Box 359931, Harborview Medical Center, 325 9th Ave., Seattle, WA 98104 ().

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