"The only way to distinguish between real reactions and cross-reactions is to use HIV isolation. All claims of HIV isolation are based on a set of phenomena detected in tissue culture, none of which are isolation and none of which are even specific for retroviruses...We don't know how many positive tests occur in the absence of HIV infection. There is no specificity of the HIV antibody tests for HIV infection."
Bio/Technology Journal, 11:696-707, 1993
from: http://www.aliveandwell.org/html/questioning/questioningthetests.html
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