seropositive
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See also: séropositive
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]seropositive (not comparable)
- Testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive). (of blood serum)
- Having seropositive blood serum. (of a person or animal)
- 1990 April 21, Robb Johnson, “AIDS Education in Guatemala”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
- They offer individual and group counseling to seropositive individuals, street outreach education, and an educational workshop series for people at risk.
- 2004, Paul D. Griffiths, “Cytomegalovirus”, in Arie J. Zuckerman et al., editors, Principles and Practice of Clinical Virology[1], 5th edition, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 108:
- Other tests (marked ‘+ +’ in Table 2C.8) are more sensitive in that they produce higher antibody titres but they do not detect substantially more seropositive individuals in a population.
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “of serum”): seronegative
- (antonym(s) of “of a person”): seronegative
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]testing positive for a given pathogen
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Noun
[edit]seropositive (plural seropositives)
- A person with such blood serum.