seropositive
nounEtymology From sero- + positive.
1
A person with such blood serum.
seropositive
adjEtymology From sero- + positive.
1
Of blood serum, testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive).
2
Of a person or animal, having seropositive blood serum.
- They offer individual and group counseling to seropositive individuals, street outreach education, and an educational workshop series for people at risk.1990 April 21, Robb Johnson, “AIDS Education in Guatemala”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
- 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.2004, Paul D. Griffiths, “Cytomegalovirus”, in Arie J. Zuckerman et al., editors, Principles and Practice of Clinical Virology, 5th edition, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 108:
- Derived terms
- seropositivity