Re: false positive HIV-tests caused by Roaccutan

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From: Hassan Badrane
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:00

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jagust@comix.uni-muenster.de (J�rg Augustin) wrote:
>
> Hello out there!
> Here comes a bad suspicion, reported by a good friend (albeit a 
> pharmaceutical layman):
> The medicine called "ROACCUTAN" has presumable triggered false positive 
> HIV-tests in at least one case.

> 1) Who has made similar experiences? / Whom of you know about the same
>    reactions after a ROACCUTAN-therapy?
> 
> 2) How do you think about the correlations between ROACCUTAN and false
>    positive HIV-tests? / Is `Isotretinoin` able to cause false positive 
>    HIV-tests?

Hello
I've read about another case but related to rabies vaccination. for more 
informations see : Arch Pathol Lab Med Vol(118) August-1994 805-806 by
Pearlman & Ballas.

hope this can help.

Hassan

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From: Hassan Badrane <hbadrane@pasteur.fr>
Subject: Re: false positive HIV-tests caused by Roaccutan
Date: 1995/05/17
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