Xpert HIV-1 viral load assay and versant HIV-1 RNA 1.5 assay: A performance comparison

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2017, Pages e86-e88

  Bruzzone, Bianca ^a   Caligiuri, Patrizia ^a,b   Nigro, Nicola ^a   Arcuri, Claudia ^a,b   Delucis, Sabrina ^a,b   Di Biagio, Antonio ^a   Icardi, Giancarlo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; RNA, VIRAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84994558830     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: 10779450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000001227     Document Type: Letter

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