The program can also help prepare you for the Ph.D. and a career as an applied anthropologist in the academy. In this website, you can learn more about our program, download the forms you need to apply, and consider how CSULB opens doors to local, regional, and international, cross-cultural, anthropological practice.
Antibody Avidity and HIV Testing. The reason that avidity tests can be used to determine the length of an HIV infection is that over time, the avidity of the anti-HIV antibodies made by the immune system will improve. This method, however, is limited by prompt, effective treatment.
Specificity is a measure of the ability of a test to correctly classify an individual as healthy or disease-free. Parikh and others reckons that sensitivity and specificity are inversely proportional, which means that as the value of sensitivity increases, the value of specificity decreases and vice versa.