Seropositive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Seropositive is an adjective meaning Of blood serum, testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive).
Meaning
Of blood serum, testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive).
More Meanings
- Of a person or animal, having seropositive blood serum.
- A person with such blood serum.
Example Sentences
They offer individual and group counseling to seropositive individuals, street outreach education, and an educational workshop series for people at risk.
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.
Word Forms
- seropositives
Antonyms for seropositive
Common opposites include seronegative.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include infected, positive, seronegative, seroprevalent, viropositive, serosensitive.
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