Contamination with HIV antibody may be responsible for false positive results in specimens tested on automated platforms running HIV 4th generation assays in a region of high HIV prevalence

• Diana Ruth Hardie ,

  * E-mail: Diana.Hardie@uct.ac.za

  Affiliations Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0056-7547

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• Stephen N. Korsman,

  Affiliations Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa

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• Nei-Yuan Hsiao,

  Affiliations Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa

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• Molefi Daniel Morobadi,

  Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa, Department of Medical Microbiology and Virology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

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• Sabeehah Vawda,

  Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa, Department of Medical Microbiology and Virology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

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• Dominique Goedhals

  Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa, Department of Medical Microbiology and Virology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

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