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Volume 354:1422-1423 March 30, 2006 Number 13
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Influenza Vaccination and False Positive HIV Results

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To the Editor: Six weeks after an occupational needle-stick injury, a 35-year-old man presented to a clinic in the Los Angeles area for testing to rule out acute infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The patient had no other risk factors for HIV infection and reported having had no symptoms suggestive of an acute retroviral syndrome. His recent medical history was notable only for his having received an influenza vaccination 11 days before presentation.

His test for hepatitis C antibody was negative, but an enzyme immunoassay for HIV type 1 (HIV-1) was repeatedly reactive, and the result on a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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