Research Article

Discordant HIV Test Results: Implications on Perinatal and Haemotransfusion Screening for HIV Infection, Cape Coast, Ghana

Table 4

Crosstabulation of initial and supplementary tests.

First Response HIV 1/2INNO-LIA HIV I/II ScoreTotal
HIV IHIV IIHIV I and HIV IINR

HIV I104248154
HIV II22
HIV I and HIV II711422
NR61303310

Total11731367488

NR: nonreactive. Sensitivity = 94.21% (90.06–98.37); specificity = 82.56% (78.68–86.44); false positive rate = 17.44% (13.56–21.32); false negative rate = 5.79% (1.63–8.38).