Simple monitoring of antiretroviral therapy with a signal-amplification-boosted HIV-1 p24 antigen assay with heat-denatured plasma

AIDS

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages

  Böni, Jürg ^a   Opravil, Milos ^b   Tomasik, Zuzana ^a   Rothen, Madeleine ^b   Bisset, Leslie ^b   Grob, Peter J ^b   Lüthy, Ruedi ^b   Schüpbach, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antiretroviral treatment monitoring; Diagnostic test; HIV 1 p24 antigen; Reverse transcriptase; Virus expression; Virus load

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN P24; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; INDINAVIR; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG MONITORING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030935706     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199706000-00001     Document Type: Article

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