Calypte Biomedical Corp (fka CBMC)

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New Technology Reveals Higher Number of New HIV Infections in the United States than Previously Known


"The new estimate is published today in a special HIV/AIDS issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, released at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City."

"The new estimate is derived from the first national surveillance system of its kind that is based on direct measurement of new HIV infections and builds on a new laboratory test (the BED HIV-1 Capture Enzyme Immunoassay) that can distinguish recent from long-standing HIV infections. CDC′s prior annual HIV incidence estimate was based on indirect and less precise methods available at the time."

http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2008/r080803.htm