The Infectious Diseases BioBank at King's College London: archiving samples from patients infected with HIV to facilitate translational research

The King's College London (KCL) Infectious Diseases BioBank opened in 2007 and collects peripheral venous blood (PVB) from individuals infected with pathogens including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). PVBs are fractionated into plasmas, lymphocytes and DNA and are then frozen. All donations...

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Autores principales: Williams, Rachel, Mant, Christine, Cason, John
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19886990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-6-98
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Cason, John
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description The King's College London (KCL) Infectious Diseases BioBank opened in 2007 and collects peripheral venous blood (PVB) from individuals infected with pathogens including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). PVBs are fractionated into plasmas, lymphocytes and DNA and are then frozen. All donations are from subjects who have given 'open consent' so samples can be used for virtually any type of biomedical research. The HIV component of the BioBank contains samples from over 400 donations from 138 HIV+ patients. Thus, the KCL Infectious Diseases BioBank - together with establishments such as the Spanish HIV BioBank - is likely to expedite translational research into this infection.
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spelling pubmed-27791772009-11-19 The Infectious Diseases BioBank at King's College London: archiving samples from patients infected with HIV to facilitate translational research Williams, Rachel Mant, Christine Cason, John Retrovirology Commentary The King's College London (KCL) Infectious Diseases BioBank opened in 2007 and collects peripheral venous blood (PVB) from individuals infected with pathogens including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). PVBs are fractionated into plasmas, lymphocytes and DNA and are then frozen. All donations are from subjects who have given 'open consent' so samples can be used for virtually any type of biomedical research. The HIV component of the BioBank contains samples from over 400 donations from 138 HIV+ patients. Thus, the KCL Infectious Diseases BioBank - together with establishments such as the Spanish HIV BioBank - is likely to expedite translational research into this infection. BioMed Central 2009-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2779177/ /pubmed/19886990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-6-98 Text en Copyright ©2009 Williams et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Williams, Rachel
Mant, Christine
Cason, John
The Infectious Diseases BioBank at King's College London: archiving samples from patients infected with HIV to facilitate translational research
title The Infectious Diseases BioBank at King's College London: archiving samples from patients infected with HIV to facilitate translational research
title_full The Infectious Diseases BioBank at King's College London: archiving samples from patients infected with HIV to facilitate translational research
title_fullStr The Infectious Diseases BioBank at King's College London: archiving samples from patients infected with HIV to facilitate translational research
title_full_unstemmed The Infectious Diseases BioBank at King's College London: archiving samples from patients infected with HIV to facilitate translational research
title_short The Infectious Diseases BioBank at King's College London: archiving samples from patients infected with HIV to facilitate translational research
title_sort infectious diseases biobank at king's college london: archiving samples from patients infected with hiv to facilitate translational research
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19886990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-6-98
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