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Prevalence of HIV and hepatitis C markers among a cadaveric population in Milan
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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 …