Group O Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection That Escaped Detection in Two Immmunoassays

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1 February 2006

journal article
case report
Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Vol. 44 (2) , 662-665
https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.44.2.662-665.2006

Abstract

We report a case of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 group O infection not detected by two highly sensitive immunoassays. The sera were strongly reactive to the V3 peptide of group O but not to the gp41 immunodominant epitope. Gp41 was sequenced, confirming that this virus belonged to group O.

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