Table 1.

Cohort demographic information for an acute HIV screening study in Durban, South Africa.

	Total Cohort	HIV Negative	Acute Infection^†	Chronic Infection
				Negative Rapid Test	Discordant Rapid Test
N	994^*	962	11	10	10
Age (median, IQR)	36 (26–47)	36 (26–47)	34 (21–50)	39 (28–50)	34 (26–44)
Female Gender (%)	572 (58%)	555 (58%)	7 (64%)	4 (40%)	6 (60%)
Median HIV RNA (Log₁₀copies/ml)^‡	N/A	N/A	5.88	5.59	5.45

One patient had positive HIV RNA but did not have an adequate specimen for EIA/WB and was not further categorized.

^†

Includes one patient without WB data, with viral load 22,200,000 copies/ml, classified as acutely infected based on consensus of 5 HIV clinical experts.

^‡

HIV RNA reported as >750,000 copies/ml were considered 750,000 copies/ml for calculations.