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Systematic Review of the Use of Dried Blood Spots for Monitoring HIV Viral Load and for Early Infant Diagnosis

BACKGROUND: Dried blood spots (DBS) have been used as alternative specimens to plasma to increase access to HIV viral load (VL) monitoring and early infant diagnosis (EID) in remote settings. We systematically reviewed evidence on the performance of DBS compared to plasma for VL monitoring and EID....

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Autores principales: Smit, Pieter W., Sollis, Kimberly A., Fiscus, Susan, Ford, Nathan, Vitoria, Marco, Essajee, Shaffiq, Barnett, David, Cheng, Ben, Crowe, Suzanne M., Denny, Thomas, Landay, Alan, Stevens, Wendy, Habiyambere, Vincent, Perriens, Joseph H., Peeling, Rosanna W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24603442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086461