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A Patient with AIDS and a False Negative HIV Western Blot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jack Stapleton
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
Judith Britz
Affiliation:
Ortho Diagnostic Systems, Inc. Raritan, New Jersey
James R. Carlson
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, University of California, Davis Sacramento, California
James Folds
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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