different between seropositive vs serostatus

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From sero- +? positive.

seropositive (not comparable)

(of blood serum): Testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive).
- 2004, Paul D. Griffiths, “Cytomegalovirus”, in Arie J. Zuckerman et al. (editors), Principles and Practice of Clinical Virology, Fifth Edition,^[1] 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.
(of a person or animal): Having seropositive blood serum.

seropositive (plural seropositives)

sero- +? status

serostatus (plural serostatuses)

(medicine) The presence or absence of specific substances in blood serum (but especially HIV)

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