Performance of the pointcare NOW system for CD4 counting in HIV patients based on five independent evaluations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Bergeron, Michèle ^a   Daneau, Géraldine ^b   Ding, Tao ^a   Sitoe, Nadia E ^c   Westerman, Larry E ^d   Stokx, Jocelijn ^b   Jani, Ilesh V ^c   Coetzee, Lindi M ^e   Scott, Lesley ^e   de Weggheleire, Anja ^b   Boel, Luc ^b   Stevens, Wendy S ^e   Glencross, Deborah K ^e   Peter, Trevor F ^f  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c Institut Nacional da Saude   (Mozambique)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORTH AFRICA; POINT OF CARE TESTING; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARD; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864987303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041166     Document Type: Article

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