Journal article
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 detected in all seropositive symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals
Journal of clinical microbiology, Vol.28(1), pp.16-19
01/1990
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.28.1.16-19.1990
PMCID: PMC269529
PMID: 2298875
Abstract
Between February 1987 and October 1988, peripheral mononuclear blood cells (PBMC) from 409 adult individuals antibody positive by Western (immuno-)blot for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) (56 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [AIDS] patients, 88 patients with AIDS-related complex, and 265 asymptomatic individuals) were consecutively cultured for HIV-1 or tested for the presence of HIV-1 DNA sequences by a polymerase chain reaction assay (PCR). We isolated HIV-1 or detected HIV-1 DNA sequences from the PBMC of all 409 HIV-1 antibody-positive individuals. None of 131 healthy HIV-1 antibody-negative individuals were HIV-1 culture positive, nor were HIV-1 DNA sequences detected by PCR in the blood specimens of 43 seronegative individuals. In addition, HIV-1 PCR and HIV-1 culture were compared in testing the PBMC of 59 HIV-1 antibody-positive and 20 HIV-1 antibody-negative hemophiliacs. Both methods were found to have sensitivities and specificities of at least 97 and 100%, respectively. In contrast, the sensitivities of serum HIV-1 antigen testing in AIDS patients and asymptomatic seropositive patients were 42 and 17%, respectively. Our ability to directly demonstrate HIV-1 infection in all HIV-1 antibody-positive individuals provides definitive support that HIV-1 antibody positivity is associated with present HIV-1 infection. Moreover, the sensitivities and specificities of PCR and culture for the detection of HIV-1 appear to be equivalent, and both methods are superior to testing for HIV-1 antigen in serum for the direct detection of HIV-1.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 detected in all seropositive symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals
- Creators
- J Brooks Jackson - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455Shirley Y KwokJohn J Sninsky - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455Jocelyn S Hopsicker - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455Kim J Sannerud - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455Frank S Rhame - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455Keith Henry - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455Margaret Simpson - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455Henry H Balfour Jr - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of clinical microbiology, Vol.28(1), pp.16-19
- DOI
- 10.1128/JCM.28.1.16-19.1990
- PMID
- 2298875
- PMCID
- PMC269529
- ISSN
- 0095-1137
- eISSN
- 1098-660X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/1990
- Academic Unit
- Pathology; VPMA - Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984046808802771
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