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Seropositive vs Seropositivity - What's the difference?

seropositive | seropositivity |

Seropositivity is a derived term of seropositive.



As an adjective seropositive

is (of blood serum) Testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive).

As a noun seropositivity is

the quality or state of being seropositive, of having blood serum that tests positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV.

seropositive

English

Adjective

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  • (of blood serum) Testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive).
  • * 2004 , Paul D. Griffiths, “Cytomegalovirus”, in Arie J. Zuckerman et al. (editors), Principles and Practice of Clinical Virology , Fifth Edition, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 9780470843383, page 108:
    • Other tests (marked ‘+ +’ in Table 2C.8) are more sensitive in that they produce higher antibody titres but they do not detect substantially more seropositive individuals in a population.
  • (of a person or animal) Having seropositive blood serum.

    • Antonyms

    * (of serum) seronegative * (of a person) seronegative

    Derived terms

    * seropositivity

    seropositivity

    English

    Noun

  • The quality or state of being seropositive, of having blood serum that tests positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV.
  • * 1986 , Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Confronting AIDS: Directions for Public Health, Health Care, and Research , National Academy Press, ISBN 978-0-309-03699-3, page 127:
    • As discussed above, because of the severe consequences of HIV infection, a few states have required that ARC and even seropositivity be reported.
  • Seropositivity rate, seroprevalence.