HIV false positive screening serology due to sample contamination reduced by a dedicated sample and platform in a high prevalence environment

• Michael A. Linström ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michael.linstrom@nhls.ac.za

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7509-1010

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• Wolfgang Preiser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Nokwazi N. Nkosi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4554-180X

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• Helena W. Vreede,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, Division of Chemical Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Stephen N. J. Korsman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1667-4363

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• Annalise E. Zemlin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service, Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, Division of Chemical Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7621-4679

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• Gert U. van Zyl

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3021-5101

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