Infant HIV testing at birth using point-of-care and conventional HIV DNA PCR: an implementation feasibility pilot study in Kenya

BACKGROUND: Infant HIV diagnosis by HIV DNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing at the standard 6 weeks of age is often late to mitigate the mortality peak that occurs in HIV positive infants’ first 2–3 months of life. Kenya recently revised their early infant diagnosis (EID) guidelines to inclu...

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Autores principales: Sandbulte, Matthew R., Gautney, Brad J., Maloba, May, Wexler, Catherine, Brown, Melinda, Mabachi, Natabhona, Goggin, Kathy, Lwembe, Raphael, Nazir, Niaman, Odeny, Thomas A., Finocchario-Kessler, Sarah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
Materias:
Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30701079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-019-0402-0

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