Evaluation of the clinical sensitivities of three viral load assays with plasma samples from a pediatric population predominantly infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype G and BG recombinant forms

• Author(s): Antunes, R ; Figueiredo, S ; Bartolo, I ; Pinheiro, M ; Rosado, L ; Soares, I ; Lourenco, H ; Taveira, N
• Date: 2003
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/21486
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Microbiology
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto da ULisboa

Description

The viral load assays AMPLICOR HIV-1 Monitor Test 1.5, Nuclisens HIV-1 QT, and Quantiplex HIV RNA 3.0 (bDNA) were evaluated for their abilities to quantify human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) RNA in 64 plasma samples from 21 children infected in P