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Remembered Question - roh - ArchivalUser - 10-18-2007
if an HIV ELISA test is 99% sensitive and 95% specific, what happens to the sensitivity and specifity if you do œanother test (I don™t know if that meant another ELISA test or a western-blot, so I assumed another elisa and put stays the same)
0 - ArchivalUser - 10-18-2007
i think the next test is Western blot....the spcificity increases...
0 - ArchivalUser - 10-18-2007
yea I think you are right cd16
0 - ArchivalUser - 10-18-2007
tks. roh...u r my star...keep doing this...my exam is in 2 wks...