Increased frequency of viral loads above 100 000 HIV-1 RNA copies/ml measured by Roche Cobas TaqMan assay in comparison with Cobas Amplicor assay

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-76

  Grgic, Ivana ^a   Zidovec Lepej, Snjezana ^a   Vince, Adriana ^a,b   Begovac, Josip ^a,b  

^a Croatia   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Cobas Amplicor; HIV 1 viral load; TaqMan

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ASSAY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS LOAD;

HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 77950627489     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2010.02.009     Document Type: Letter

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