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PCR
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PCR
abbr.
polymerase chain reaction

PCR
abbreviation for
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) polymerase chain reaction: a technique for rapidly producing many copies of a fragment of DNA for diagnostic or research purposes


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However, your advice that a negative HIV test is grounds for having unsafe sex with a partner is erroneous.
1) In a subsample of participants who had never tested positive for the virus before the survey, only 54% said that they had had an HIV test within the previous year; the rest had been tested in the more distant past or had never been tested at all.
We tried to retest cases with an indeterminate HIV test result.
 
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