Whole blood versus plasma spots for measurement of HIV-1 viral load in HIV-infected African patients

Lancet

Volumn 362, Issue 9401, 2003, Pages 2067-2068

  Mwaba, Peter ^a,d   Cassol, Sharon ^b   Nunn, Andrew ^a,c   Pilon, Rick ^b   Chintu, Chifumbe ^a   Janes, Michelle ^b   Zumla, Alimuddin ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PAPER; PATIENT; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 0347418202     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)15103-3     Document Type: Article

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