seropositive
seropositive
Definition
sero·positive (sir′ō päz′ə tiv)
adjective
being or having a positive test result for the presence of a specific antibody in the serum of the blood
seropositive
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- patient: The prevalence of peptic ulcer was 21 % in seropositive patients.
- animal: All badgers were culled at setts where one or more seropositive animals were caught.
- donor: Healthy HHV-5 seropositive blood donors can sometimes transmit HHV-5 infection to recipients.
- gravis: With 44 new cases diagnosed in a six year period, we established an incidence for seropositive myasthenia gravis of 10.5 per million population.
- cattle: Around 17 % of dairy herds and 24 % of beef herds contained seropositive cattle.
- man: The first [ 1 ] studied all 209 HIV-1 seropositive men enrolled in a Pittsburgh clinic in 1984 and 1985.
Used with adjective complement
- remain: Almost all patients remained seropositive against the different antigens during the 1- to 2-year follow-up.
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