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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Infected Patients Accept Finger Stick Blood Collection for Point-Of-Care CD4 Testing

INTRODUCTION: HIV-infected patients require antiretroviral treatment for life. To improve access to care, CD4 enumeration and viral load tests have been redesigned to be used as point-of-care techniques using finger-stick blood. Accurate CD4 counting in capillary blood requires a free flowing blood...

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Autores principales: Daneau, Géraldine, Gous, Natasha, Scott, Lesley, Potgieter, Joachim, Kestens, Luc, Stevens, Wendy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4996420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27556894
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161891