Comparison of Multispot EIA with Western blot for confirmatory serodiagnosis of HIV

Serum Antibodies from a Subset of Horses Positive for Babesia caballi by Competitive Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Demonstrate a Protein Recognition Pattern That Is Not Consistent with Infection

“…Importantly, due to the increase of international movement of horses, all horses identified as RAP-1-cELISA positive should be retested by immunoblot assay for diagnostic confirmation. This combination of tests would be consistent with diagnostic confirmation of other infectious diseases of animals and humans, including equine infectious anemia, Lyme disease, and human immunodeficiency virus (35)(36)(37).…”

Performance of an alternative laboratory-based algorithm for HIV diagnosis in a high-risk population

“…14 The algorithm proposed at the 2010 HIV Diagnostics Conference 5 suggested using an HIV-1/HIV-2 differentiation assay after a reactive HIV-1/HIV-2 screening IA, and others have shown this to be an effective strategy. [15][16][17] In this study we compared the performance of 6 FDA-approved rapid tests for this role. Our finding that all the rapid tests performed similarly as supplemental tests in the algorithm is not unexpected.…”

Comparison of alternative interpretive criteria for the HIV-1 Western blot and results of the Multispot HIV-1/HIV-2 Rapid Test for classifying HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections

“…This test has been shown to perform with high sensitivity and specificity 15 and correctly identifies HIV-2 specimens that were initially HIV-1 positive by WB. 3,16 …”