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Pooled PCR testing of dried blood spots for infant HIV diagnosis is cost efficient and accurate

BACKGROUND: Access to qualitative HIV PCRs for early infant diagnosis (EID) is restricted in resource-limited settings due to cost. We hypothesised that pooling of dried blood spots (DBS), defined as combining multiple patient samples in a single test with subsequent individual testing of positive p...

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Autores principales: van Schalkwyk, Cari, Maritz, Jean, van Zyl, Gert U., Preiser, Wolfgang, Welte, Alex
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6371519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30744605
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3767-z