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Prevalence of HIV and hepatitis C markers among a cadaveric population in Milan
  1. John Barbara1,
  2. George Galea2,
  3. Ruth Warwick3
  1. 1London and SE Zone NBS, London, UK
  2. 2Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, 21, Ellen's Glen Road, Edinburgh EH17 7QT, UK
  3. 3London and SE Zone NBS, London, UK

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.53.5.405

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      Cattaneo et al report the interesting finding of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in individuals lacking risk behaviour.1 With any postmortem sample, serological false positivity is a well known phenomenon,2–3 and in the above instance in particular, confirmatory testing is important for confidence in test results. Although concordance in different screening assays is an excellent predictor for true positivity with …

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