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Rapid versus standard testing for prenatal HIV screening in a predominantly Hispanic population
Journal of Perinatology, 09/11/09
Tung CS et al. – In a predominantly low socioeconomic Hispanic patient population with a 0.5% HIV prevalence, false positive HIV testing is lower for the OraQuick rapid HIV test compared with the HIV ELISA test. Implementation of the rapid HIV test would mitigate the emotional distress and unnecessary intrapartum and neonatal zidovudine treatments associated with false positive HIV testing.
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