Correction: Multi-Centre Evaluation of the Determine HIV Combo Assay when Used for Point of Care Testing in a High Risk Clinic-Based Population
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In the Results subsection of the Abstract, there is an error in the first sentence. Please see the corrected sentence below: ''Of 3190 evaluation specimens, 39 were confirmed as HIV-positive (12 with early infection) and 3151 were HIV-negative by reference testing.'' Copyright: ß 2014 The PLOS ONE Staff. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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