NAT Testing Increases HIV Detection Yield

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Courtesy Photos/Drug Enforcement Agency Officials show materials seized from a methamphetamine lab after a raid. Both methamphetamine and the chemicals used to produce it can contaminate a cook site.

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Disaster drill teaches lessons
Police and fire radios crackled to life Sunday as smoke filled the air over the tracks at the 95th Street Metra station in Oak Lawn, while firefighters from the Chicago Ridge Fire Department ripped off car doors to extract the lifeless bodies of small children. Farther north on the tracks, a group of teenagers lay moaning and pleading with firefighters for help. One was suffering from severe …

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NAT Testing Increases HIV Detection Yield
Community-based HIV testing programs generally use only HIV antibody testing, but nucleic acid testing (NAT) can detect the presence of HIV earlier. Researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine studied more than 3,000 patients who sought HIV testing in community-based clinics in or near San Diego to examine the yield of testing with a rapid test plus NAT and to see whether patients would be …

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