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Estimation Of Hiv Incidence Using Multiple Biomakers, Ron Brookmeyer, Jacob Konikoff, Oliver Laeyendecker, Susan Eshleman
Estimation Of Hiv Incidence Using Multiple Biomakers, Ron Brookmeyer, Jacob Konikoff, Oliver Laeyendecker, Susan Eshleman
Ron Brookmeyer
The incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the rate at which new HIV infections occur in populations. The development of accurate, practical, and cost-effective approaches to estimation of HIV incidence is a priority among researchers in HIV surveillance because of limitations with existing methods. In this paper, we develop methods for estimating HIV incidence rates using multiple biomarkers in biological samples collected from a cross-sectional survey. An advantage of the method is that it does not require longitudinal follow-up of individuals. We use assays for BED, avidity, viral load, and CD4 cell count data from clade B samples collected …