Systematic review of the performance of HIV viral load technologies on plasma samples

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Sollis, Kimberly A ^a   Smit, Pieter W ^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   Perrins, Jos ^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 United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Service (UKNEQAS)   (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

ACCURACY; ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MONITORING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMIT OF DETECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; ALGORITHM; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; SEROLOGY; VIROLOGY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DIAGNOSTIC KIT;

ALGORITHMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; VIRAL LOAD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84897775476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085869     Document Type: Article

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