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Investigation of Primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Patients Who Test Positive for Heterophile Antibody [Walensky RP et al. CID 2001;33:570]: The authors recently reported three cases of primary HIV infection in patients with positive heterophile tests for EBV in a paper that is "in press." The current report concerns a review of 132 positive heterophile antibody tests to determine the frequency of these false-positive tests in patients with primary HIV infection. The results were uniformly negative. The authors conclude that this type of false-positive test may occur, but it is infrequent.
posted 8/28/2001





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