TABLE 5.
Specificities of HIV screening assays
| Assay | No. of false-positive samples
|
Specificity (%)
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initially reactive | Repeatedly reactive | Initially reactive | Repeatedly reactive | |
| VIDAS HIV DUO Ultra | 6 | 5 | 97.7 | 98.1 |
| Genscreen Plus HIV Ag-Ab | 17 | 0 | 93.4 | 100 |
| Enzygnost HIV Integral | 4 | 2 | 98.4 | 99.2 |
| Enzymun-Test HIV Combi | 4 | 2 | 98.4 | 99.2 |
| Genscreen HIV 1/2, version 2 | 7 | 2 | 97.3 | 99.2 |
| Genetic Systems HIV-1 Ag | 16 | 8 | 93.7 | 96.9 |