Systematic review of the use of dried blood spots for monitoring HIV viral load and for early infant diagnosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Smit, Pieter W ^a   Sollis, Kimberly A ^a   Fiscus, Susan ^b   Ford, Nathan ^c   Vitoria, Marco ^c   Essajee, Shaffiq ^d   Barnett, David ^e   Cheng, Ben ^f   Crowe, Suzanne M ^g   Denny, Thomas ^h   Landay, Alan ⁱ   Stevens, Wendy ^j   Habiyambere, Vincent ^c   Perriens, Joseph H ^c   Peeling, Rosanna W ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE   (United States)

^e Department of Haematology UK NEQAS for Leucocyte Immunophenotyping ^*  (United Kingdom)

^f Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation   (United States)

^g BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^h DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GENETIC ANALYZER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PATIENT MONITORING; PEER REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VIRUS LOAD; BLOOD; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; VIROLOGY;

DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFANT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84897469181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086461     Document Type: Article

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