Highly Precise Measurement of HIV DNA by Droplet Digital PCR

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Strain, Matthew C ^a,b   Lada, Steven M ^a,b   Luong, Tiffany ^a,b,c   Rought, Steffney E ^a,b   Gianella, Sara ^a,b   Terry, Valeri H ^a,b   Spina, Celsa A ^a,b   Woelk, Christopher H ^a,b   Richman, Douglas D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; POL PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROPLET DIGITAL POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; GENE DOSAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURAL GENE;

DNA, VIRAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; HIV-1; HUMANS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POL GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 84875712178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055943     Document Type: Article

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