Platelets may affect detection and quantitation of HIV RNA in plasma samples with low viral loads [2]

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1432-1433

  Sabino, Ester Cerdeira ^a   Gaburo Jr , Nelson ^a   Leite, José Paulo ^a   Viecili, Mauricio ^a   Rosenfeld, Luiz Gastão ^a  

^a Hospital do Coração and DASA Diagnósticos da América   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID; VIRUS RNA;

BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL SEPARATION; CENTRIFUGATION; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PLASMA PREPARATION TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RNA ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TUBE; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PARTICLE;

BLOOD PLATELETS; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 7244229606     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126334-200411010-00013     Document Type: Letter

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