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. 2016 Aug 26;16(1):450. doi: 10.1186/s12879-016-1694-9

Table 2.

Assay results of the SD BIOLINE HIV/syphilis Duo test for dual detection of HIV and syphilis, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2014

RDT Infection RDT Result Reference methoda
Positive Negative Total
Using SD Bioline HIV/Syphilis duo test kit Syphilis Positive 42 13 55
Negative 2 9943 9945
Total 10,000
HIV Positive 19 0 19
Negative 0 9981 9981
Total 10,000

RDT rapid diagnostic test

aTested by using national HIV testing algorithm [7] with a combination of Determine HIV-1/2/O assay (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL), Uni-Gold Recombinant HIV-1/2 (Trinity Biotech, Bray, Ireland) HIV 1/2 Stat-Pak Ultra Fast (Chembio Diagnostic Systems, Medford, NY). Testing for syphilis was done, first by RPR test by using IMMUTREP RPR test kit (Omega Diagnostics Scotland UK) and all test positive samples were re-confirmed by TPHA method. (Thirteen (0.13 %) cases in syphilis testing were found false positive while two were false negative and in case of HIV all of 19 cases tested positive using SD Bioline HIV/Syphilis duo test kit also tested positive by the reference method.)