Brief Report: Virologic Monitoring Can Be a Cost-Effective Strategy to Diagnose Treatment Failure on First-Line ART

CD4 count testing is perceived to be an affordable strategy to diagnose treatment failure on first-line antiretroviral therapy. We hypothesize that the superior accuracy of viral load (VL) testing will result in less patients being incorrectly switched to more expensive and toxic second-line regimen...

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Autores principales: Vandormael, Alain M., Boulware, David R., Tanser, Frank C., Bärnighausen, Till W., Stott, Katharine E., de Oliveira, Tulio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2016
Materias:
Epidemiology and Prevention
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4767659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26484740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000000870

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