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. 2019 Oct 22;19:877. doi: 10.1186/s12879-019-4485-2

Correction to: Rapid development of HIV elite control in a patient with acute infection

Deirdre Morley 1,, John S Lambert 1,6, Louise E Hogan 2, Cillian De Gascun 3, Niamh Redmond 4, Rachel L Rutishauser 2, Cassandra Thanh 2, Erica A Gibson 2, Kristen Hobbs 2, Sonia Bakkour 5,7, Michael P Busch 5,7, Jeremy Farrell 1, Padraig McGetrick 1, Timothy J Henrich 2
PMCID: PMC6805619  PMID: 31640575

Correction to: BMC Infect Dis

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4374-8

After publication of the original article [1], we were notified that a column needed to be removed from Table 1.

Table 1.

Results of HIV molecular testing, Antigen/Antibody screening assay, and CD4 count from time first presentation (June 2014) to initiation of ARV therapy

Time Viral Load
(RNA copies/ml)
Forth Generation Antigen/Antibody HIV Test
(s/co –relative quantity of HIV Ab)
Confirmatory Test CD4+ T Cells/uL (%)
Viral Load SCA ARCHITECT (S/Co) VIDAS (S/Co) GS INNO-LIA
Jun 2014 71550a 1 b NEG NEG
Oct 2014 <  200 11.1c 13.72 c gp41 (3+), p31 (1+), p24 (3+), p17 (1+) c
Nov 2014 <  40 616 (45%)
Dec 2014
Oct 2015 <  40 459 (46%)
Apr 2016 <  40 558 (40%)
Sep 2016 0.84d
Antiretroviral therapy commenced September 2016 d
 Oct 16 585 (47%)

Fourth Generation HIV Antigen/Antibody test: ARCHITECT® Abbott; VIDAS® BioMerieux; GS = GeneScreen® Bio-Rad, INNO-LIA, Fujirebio®

SCA Single copy assay, S/Co Signal/cutoff

a Retrospective molecular test on stored sample from June 2014

b Read as equivocal value at time of testing

c Positive test

d ARV commenced on clinical grounds-patient presented with furunculosis

The correct version can be found below:

Furthermore, the words “Hiv specific antibody levels and” should be deleted from the ‘Case presentation’ section in the Abstract.

The original article has been corrected.

The publisher apologies for the inconvenience.

Reference


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