Dried blood spots versus plasma for the quantitation of HIV-1 RNA using a real-Time PCR, m2000rt assay

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-181

  Vidya, Madhavan ^a   Saravanan, Shanmugam ^a   Rifkin, Samara ^a   Solomon, Sunil S ^a   Waldrop, Greer ^c   Mayer, Kenneth H ^b   Solomon, Suniti ^a   Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu ^a  

^a YRG CENTRE FOR AIDS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION   (India)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abbott m2000rt; DBS viral load; HIV 1 RNA quantitation; HIV 1 RNA quantitation in resource limited settings

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INDIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD; DESICCATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VIRAL LOAD;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 84859426996     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: 18790984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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