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Dried Blood Spots for Viral Load Monitoring in Malawi: Feasible and Effective

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of dried blood spots (DBS) use for viral load (VL) monitoring, describing patient outcomes and programmatic challenges that are relevant for DBS implementation in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: We recruited adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) pa...

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Autores principales:	Rutstein, Sarah E., Hosseinipour, Mina C., Kamwendo, Deborah, Soko, Alice, Mkandawire, Memory, Biddle, Andrea K., Miller, William C., Weinberger, Morris, Wheeler, Stephanie B., Sarr, Abdoulaye, Gupta, Sundeep, Chimbwandira, Frank, Mwenda, Reuben, Kamiza, Steve, Hoffman, Irving, Mataya, Ronald
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2015
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4405546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25898365 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124748

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