False Positive Serologic Tests for HTLV-I Following Influenza Vaccination

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...

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...

False Positive Serologic Reactions for Syphilis in Eosinophilia

Greval (1940) reported that some cases of ' Eosinophilia ' give false positive Wassermann reaction. More recently Menon (1945) and D'Abrera and Stork (1946) reported similar reactions in tropical eosinophilia. It was proposed to record results of Wassermann reaction and Kahn test in all cases of eosinophilia as a part of the investigation into the incidence of false positive serologic reactions...

Hemiparesis following influenza vaccination.

Accepted 10 March 1998 A 72-year-old woman presented with subacute, non-progressive weakness ofher left hand 2 weeks after receiving an influenza vaccination. Her spouse had noticed that she was walking unsteadily, with a tendency to fall to the left side. She also drooled from the left angle of the mouth. She denied any headache, fever, neck pain, alteration in consciousness or seizures. She h...

Cutaneous Manifestations in HTLV-I Positive Blood Donors