Evaluation of the Abbott m2000rt RealTime™ HIV-1 assay with manual sample preparation compared with the ROCHE COBAS® AmpliPrep™/AMPLICOR™ HIV-1 MONITOR® v1.5 using specimens from East Africa

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 162, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 218-222

  Crump, John A ^a,b,c,d   Scott, Lesley E ^e   Msuya, Emma ^c   Morrissey, Anne B ^a   Kimaro, Ekyafyose E ^c   Shao, John F ^c,d   Stevens, Wendy S ^e,f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^d KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

HIV; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; Tanzania; Validation studies; Viral load

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ACCURACY; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; STANDARD; TANZANIA;

BLOOD DONORS; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; TANZANIA; VIRAL LOAD;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 70349742777     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2009.08.013     Document Type: Article

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