[A complex approach to the diagnosis of HIV-1 infection: the use of the polymerase chain reaction as an alternative confirmatory test].

The results of the three-year observation of female patient St. in whose blood antibodies to HIV disappeared in the course of time and the results of the laboratory study of the blood sera of children born of HIV-infected mothers are presented. In these patients correct diagnosis could be made only with the use of a complex of virological and molecular-biological methods.