Dual rapid lateral flow immunoassay fingerstick wholeblood testing for syphilis and HIV infections is acceptable and accurate, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Table 1 Field performance of the SD BIOLINE HIV/Syphilis Duo dual rapid test in Haiti for detection of HIV antibodies using a dual HIV/syphilis test, 2014

		HIV reference test*		Total	Sensitivity (95 % CI)	Specificity (95 % CI)	Kappa Coefficient (95 % CI)
		Pos	Neg	Total
SD BIOLINE HIV/Syphilis Duo test	Pos	128	5	133	99.2 % (95.8 %, 100 %)	97.0 % (93.2 %, 99.0 %)	.96
SD BIOLINE HIV/Syphilis Duo test	Neg	1	164	165			(.93, .99)
Total		129	169	298

*Reference tests were Murex HIV-1.2.0 (DiaSorin S.p.A., Saluggia, Italy) or Alere Determine HIV (Alere) rapid testing. Positive results were confirmed with a colloidal gold test from KHB (Shanghai Kehua Bio-Engineering Co., LTD, China)

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