Alert, but not alarmed - a comment on “Towards more accurate HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-site evaluation of HIV RDTs and risk factors for false positives (Kosack et al. 2017)”

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Accounting for False Positive HIV Tests: Is Visceral Leishmaniasis Responsible?

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Causes of false-positive HIV rapid diagnostic test results

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Variation in Specificity of HIV Rapid Diagnostic Tests over Place and Time: An Analysis of Discordancy Data Using a Bayesian Approach

(2013) Derryck Klarkowski et al.   PLoS One

The Implementation and Appraisal of a Novel Confirmatory HIV-1 Testing Algorithm in the Microbicides Development Programme 301 Trial (MDP301)

(2012) Ute Jentsch et al.   PLoS One

Performance of a Rapid and Simple HIV Testing Algorithm in a Multicenter Phase III Microbicide Clinical Trial

(2011) Tania Crucitti et al.   Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Indeterminate and discrepant rapid HIV test results in couples' HIV testing and counselling centres in Africa

(2011) Debrah I Boeras et al.   Journal of the International AIDS Society

Low Specificities of HIV Diagnostic Tests Caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense Sleeping Sickness

(2010) V. Lejon et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Association of Schistosomiasis with False-Positive HIV Test Results in an African Adolescent Population

(2010) D. B. Everett et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY