Document 2682
 DOCN  M94A2682
 TI    Correlation between borderline results of ELISA and the clinical status
       at Kinshasa, Zaire.
 DT    9412
 AU    Kashamuka M; Mbala S; Mama A; Kambembo L; Nzila N; Projet SIDA,
       Kinshasa, Zaire.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):249 (abstract no. PB0427). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94369893
 AB    OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the correlation between the clinical status and
       the borderline laboratory results. METHODS: 5800 sera were collected
       between 24 june 92 and 24 december 93 from all patients who came to the
       Projet SIDA laboratory. A clinical examination was completed for each
       patient. The organon teknika was the Elisa that we used for that study.
       Borderline results were defined as 20% of the cut off value above or
       below that value. RESULTS: TABULAR DATA, SEE ABSTRACT VOLUME CONCLUSION:
       Patients with negative borderline results had symptoms of Aids as
       patients with positive borderline. It's important to follow patients
       with borderline results of Elisa for serological, immunological and
       clinical evaluation and to consider all results negative borderline as
       indeterminate and to repeat them three months after.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/DIAGNOSIS/IMMUNOLOGY  *AIDS
       Serodiagnosis  *Developing Countries  *Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
       Human  HIV Antibodies/*BLOOD  HIV Seropositivity/*DIAGNOSIS/IMMUNOLOGY
       Predictive Value of Tests  Zaire  MEETING ABSTRACT

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