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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.