Low-cost enumeration of CD4+ T cells using a density-based negative selection method (RosetteSep™) for the monitoring of HIV-infected individuals in non-OECD countries

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-35

  Bold, Angelika ^a   Wurth, Rainer ^a,b   Keller, Thomas ^a   Trahorsch, Ulrike ^a   Voigt, Peter ^a   Schubert, Stefan ^a   Sack, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Institute of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

CD4 count; HIV infection; HIV monitoring; Low cost assay; Non OECD countries; RosetteSep

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ASSAY; CELL COUNT; CELL SELECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; COST CONTROL; DENSITY BASED NEGATIVE SELECTION ASSAY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; EVALUATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL SEPARATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 37849016306     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20494     Document Type: Article

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