False-positive COVID-19 results: hidden problems and costs

HIV false positive results and Flu vaccination

Abstract False positive results are the major problem influencing interpretation of Clinical Laboratory test. They are originated mostly in the other diseases, technical errors and the recent vaccination. The problem has been presented since 1991 is positive HIV test after influenza Vaccination (1). The False positive has been reported in Cases using Eliza, one of The most common test to screen...

Nitroblue tetrazolium reduction. False positive and false negative results.

Quantitative and histochemical nitroblue with polycythemia vera and neoplasia astetrazolium reduction (NBT) tests were persociated with fever, as well as in those with formed on leukocytes of 13 patients with known bacterial infection. It is suggested polycythemia vera, seven with chronic that patients with neoplasia or polycygranulocytic leukemia, eight with neothemia vera may show a false pos...

Influenza vaccination and false positive HIV results.

n engl j med 354;13 www.nejm.org march 30, 2006 1422 tions of influenza and should be considered for vaccination.1,2 The genetic diversity of H5N1 influenza strains causing serious human disease is greater than previously recognized. These observations have important implications for vaccine development, since the vaccine strains being developed include A/Vietnam/1194/2004 (in China) and A/Viet...

Hidden Costs in Avoiding False Sharing in Software DSMs

Page based software DSMs experience high degrees of false sharing especially in irregular applications with fine grain sharing granularity. The overheads due to false sharing is considered to be the dominant factor limiting the performance of software DSMs. Several approaches have been proposed in the literature to reduce/eliminate false sharing. In this paper, we evaluate two of these approach...

COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: The Problematic Management of Residents Without Positive COVID-19 RT-PCR