Comparison of droplet digital PCR and seminested real-time PCR for quantification of cell-associated HIV-1 RNA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kiselinova, Maja ^a   Pasternak, Alexander O ^b   De Spiegelaere, Ward ^a   Vogelaers, Dirk ^a   Berkhout, Ben ^b   Vandekerckhove, Linos ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUS RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DROPLET DIGITAL POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

HIV-1; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84896920831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085999     Document Type: Article

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