Opportunities to improve storage and transportation of blood specimens for CD4 testing in a rural district in Zimbabwe using BD vacutainer CD4 stabilization tubes: a stability and diagnostic accuracy study

BACKGROUND: CD4+ T-cell testing of blood specimens collected in standard EDTA Vacutainer tubes and transported at ambient temperature, must be completed within 48 hours with the BD FACSCount™ flow cytometer, restricting specimen collection in remote clinics with no on-site testing and limited specim...

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Autores principales: Fajardo, Emmanuel, Metcalf, Carol, Mbofana, Elton, van Vyve, Charlotte, Munyaradzi, Dhodho, Simons, Sandra, Kuhudzayi, Misheck, Bygrave, Helen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25330812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-014-0553-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25330812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-014-0553-9

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