Assessment of the low-cost cavidi exa vir load assay for monitoring HIV viral load in pediatric and adult patients

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 387-390

  Greengrass, Vicki ^a   Lohman, Barbera ^b,c   Morris, Lisa ^a   Plate, Megan ^a   Steele, Pauline M ^a   Walson, Judd L ^b   Crowe, Suzanne M ^a,d,e  

^a BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

HIV reverse transcriptase; Monitoring HIV infection; Pediatric testing; Resource constrained countries; Viral load

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BLOOD VOLUME; CAVIDI AB; COBAS AMPLICOR HIV 1 MONITOR ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EXAVIR LOAD ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; CHILD; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 70350548083     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e3181b05f62     Document Type: Article

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