Quantification of genital human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) DNA in specimens from women with low plasma HIV-1 RNA levels typical of HIV-1 nontransmitters

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4357-4362

  Benki, Sarah ^a,b   McClelland, R Scott ^a,c   Emery, Sandra ^b   Baeten, Jared M ^a   Richardson, Barbra A ^a,b   Lavreys, Ludo ^a,c   Mandaliya, Kishorchandra ^d   Overbaugh, Julie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^d Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIRUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VAGINA SECRETION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; BODY FLUIDS; CERVIX UTERI; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; VAGINA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 33845579438     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01481-06     Document Type: Article

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