Heat-mediated immune complex dissociation and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay signal amplification render p24 antigen detection in plasma as sensitive as HIV-1 RNA detection by polymerase chain reaction

AIDS

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1085-1090

  Schüpbach, Jörg ^a   Flepp, Markus ^b   Pontelli, Dora ^a   Tomasik, Zuzana ^a   Lüthy, Ruedi ^b   Böni, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adult HIV 1 infection; Detection and quantification of virus expression; p24 antigen; Viral RNA load

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN P24; VIRUS RNA;

ACIDIFICATION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; DENATURATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIV CORE PROTEIN P24; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RNA, VIRAL; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 0029830936     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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