Definition of Seropositive

1. Adjective. (sense of blood serum) Testing positive for a given pathogen, ''especially'' HIV (HIV positive). ¹

2. Adjective. (sense of a person or animal) Having seropositive blood serum. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seropositive

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Seropositive

1. N., an individual whose serotype suggests that they have experienced infection in the past. (05 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seropositive

serologists
serology
seroma
seromembranous
seromucoid
seromucous
seromucous cells
seromucous gland
seromyotomy
seron
seronegative
seronegativity
serons
seroon
seroons
seropositive (current term)
seropositivity
seroprevalence
seroprevalences
seroprevalent
seroprotection
seropurulent
seropus
seropuses
seroreactivity
seroreversion
serosa
serosa of colon
serosa of gallbladder
serosa of liver

Literary usage of Seropositive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Disease Prevention Through Immunization: Beginning Of Health Care Reform (2004)
"Frequency of primary care visits and use of HIV-related therapy for 176 HIV-seropositive drug users, by CD4 + T-lymphocyte count, during 16-month study ..."

2. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"Infants of HIV seropositive mothers are almost always seropositive at birth but ... We have recently demonstrated (4) that HIV seropositive children have a ..."

3. Family and Community Interventions for Children Affected by AIDSby Linda Richter, Julie Manegold, Riashnee Pather by Linda Richter, Julie Manegold, Riashnee Pather (2005)
"One group of control children was comprised of age-matched children with HIV-1-seropositive mothers who were alive at the time of death of the AIDS orphan ..."

4. Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Report of the U. S. Preventive by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"Community-wide changes may have been more important than identification of seropositive persons, however, and there are worrisome signs of persisting unsafe ..."

5. Report of the Surgeon Generals Workshop on Children With HIV Infection And edited by Benjamin K. Silverman, Anthony Waddell (1987)
"unit of blood found retrospectively to be HIV seropositive have themselves become seropositive. Although 75% of recipients died within one year after the ..."

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