Tackling HIV through robust diagnostics in the developing world: Current status and future opportunities

Lab on a Chip

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 194-211

  Desai, Darash ^a   Wu, Grace ^a   Zaman, Muhammad H ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; DIMETICONE; GENERIC DRUG; POLYMER; QUANTUM DOT; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ASSAY; ATTITUDE TO AIDS; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; DRIED BLOOD SPOT; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; LAB ON A CHIP; LATERAL FLOW ASSAY; LIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERIALS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROCYTOMETER; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; OPTICS; PATIENT MONITORING; PLASMA; POLITICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STAFF TRAINING; STIGMA; TEMPERATURE; TIME; URINALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS LOAD; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 78650407591     PISSN: 14730197     EISSN: 14730189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0lc00340a     Document Type: Review

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