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Biowatch

10/16/05 6:10 PM

#16986 RE: DewDiligence #16984

>>standalone diagnostics intended for a low-risk population must have close to a 100% specificity (almost a zero rate of false positives) to be useful in practice.<<

This is why if you test positive for HIV (or some other diseases), they use a different type of test to double check the results.