Indication of tests
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the early 1980s, prior to the appearance of AZT for the treatment of AIDS, the course of the disease was closely followed by monitoring the composition of patient blood samples, even though the outcome would not offer the patient any further treatment options. In part, these studies on the appearance of HIV in specific communities permitted the advancement of hypotheses as to the route of transmission of the virus. By understanding how the disease was transmitted, resources could be targeted to the communities at greatest risk in campaigns aimed at reducing the number of new infections. The specific serological diagnostic identification, and later genotypic or molecular identification, of HIV also enabled the development of hypotheses as to the temporal and geographical origins of the virus, as well as a myriad of other hypothesis. The development of molecular diagnostic tools have enabled physicians and researchers to monitor the efficacy of treatment with anti-retroviral drugs. Molecular diagnostics are now commonly used to identify HIV in healthy people long before the onset of illness and have been used to demonstrate the existence of people who are genetically resistant to HIV infection.
Kinneret is the Hebrew name of the Sea of Galilee, the largest freshwater lake in Israel. Other meanings of Kinneret and Kineret include:

Places
Camp Kinneret, a summer camp of Canadian Young Judaea
Kinneret (archaeological site), biblical city which gave the Sea of Galilee its Hebrew name; now Tell el-Oreimeh or Tel Kinrot on the northwestern coast of the lake
Kinneret College, college south of the Sea of Galilee
Kinneret Farm, experimental training farm (1908-1949), now museum
Kinneret Subdistrict, Israel
Kvutzat Kinneret, kibbutz southwest of the Sea of Galilee
Moshavat Kinneret, village (moshava) southwest of the Sea of Galilee

People
Kineret (singer), an Orthodox Jewish recording artist
Kinneret Shiryon (born 1955), Reform rabbi, the first female rabbi in Israel

Other
Kineret (medication), brand name of anakinra; no direct relation to the lake
Kinneret, Israeli song based on Rachel Bluwsteins poem "Perhaps" ("VeUlai")
Kinneret bream or Kinneret bleak, Acanthobrama terraesanctae, fish endemic to the Sea of Galilee and a second lake in Syria
Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, publishing company, Israel
Operation Kinneret, another name of the Israeli military Operation Olive Leaves

See also
All pages with titles containing Kinneret
All pages with titles containing Kineret