The Infectious Diseases BioBank at King's College London: Archiving samples from patients infected with HIV to facilitate translational research

Retrovirology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Williams, Rachel ^a,b   Mant, Christine ^a   Cason, John ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DNA EXTRACTION; FRACTIONATION; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PLASMA; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA ISOLATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VENOUS BLOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD; FREEZING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BLOOD; FREEZING; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LONDON; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 71049116868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-98     Document Type: Note

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