Table 3.

Summary – rapid HIV screening supplemented with pooled NAAT testing (B/W reproduction).

Identification of acute HIV infection in urban US cities using pooled NAAT of HIV seronegative plasma
Description	Rapid tested alone	Rapid and NAATtested	AHI	HIV Ab+	%HIV Ab+	%Increase in yield	%Yield AHI
Los Angelesa		1698	1	14	0.82%	7.14%	0.06%
Newark, NJ	12,390	6785	8	116	0.94%	6.90%	0.12%
Seattle King Countyb		3439	5	81	2.36%	6.17%	0.15%
Atlantac		2136	4	66	3.09%	6.06%	0.19%
San Franciscoa		2722	11	105	3.86%	10.48%	0.40%
Baltimored	60,695	58,925	7	1766	2.90%	0.40%	0.01%-0.02%*
Rhode Islande		113	6				5.31%
North Carolinaf		109,250	23	606	0.55%	3.80%	0.02%

^*When reflex RNA screening of indeterminant Western blots were included an additional 4 AHI specimens were identified (0.02%).

^aRef. [31].

^bRef. [33].

^cPriddy F, et al. NAAT-based screening for acute HIV infection in an urban HIV counselling and testing population in the Southeastern United States. In: Program and abstracts, 12th Conf Retroviruses Opp Infect, Boston, February 2005: Abstract 964.

^dRef. [34].

^eRef. [36].

^fRef. [35].