Dried blood spot specimen quality and validation of a new pre-analytical processing method for qualitative HIV-1 PCR, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

BACKGROUND: Poor quality dried blood spot (DBS) specimens are usually rejected by virology laboratories, affecting early infant diagnosis of HIV. The practice of combining two incompletely-filled DBS in one specimen preparation tube during pre-analytical specimen processing (i.e., the two-spot metho...

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Autores principales: Govender, Kerusha, Parboosing, Raveen, Siyaca, Ntombizandile, Moodley, Pravikrishnen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28879108
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v5i1.349

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28879108
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v5i1.349

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