Viral load detection using dried blood spots in a cohort of HIV-1- infected children in uganda: Correlations with clinical and immunological criteria for treatment failure

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2665-2667

  Costenaro, Paola ^a   Lundin, Rebecca ^a   Petrara, Maria Raffaella ^a   Penazzato, Martina ^a   Massavon, William ^a   Kizito, Susan ^b   Nabachwa, Sandra Monica ^b   Musoke, Maria Nannyonga ^b   Namisi, Charles ^b   Morelli, Erika ^a   Bilardi, Davide ^a   Mazza, Antonio ^c   Zanchetta, Marisa ^a   Giaquinto, Carlo ^a   De Rossi, Anita ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Nsambya Home Care   (Uganda)

^c Associazione Casa Accoglienza Alla Vita Padre Angelo   (Italy)

^d VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; EFAVIRENZ; LAMIVUDINE; LOPINAVIR; NEVIRAPINE; RITONAVIR; STAVUDINE; VIRUS RNA; ZIDOVUDINE;

ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; UGANDA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; BLOOD; DESICCATION; EVALUATION STUDY; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY;

ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DESICCATION; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TREATMENT FAILURE; UGANDA; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84902764610     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00961-14     Document Type: Article

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