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Reliability of plasma HIV viral load testing beyond 24 hours: Insights gained from a study in a routine diagnostic laboratory

BACKGROUND: Viral load testing is key to monitoring response to anti-retroviral therapy (ART). However, in lower and middle income countries with large epidemics, pre-analytical challenges threaten the quality of testing. It is unknown how much delayed processing and adverse storage affects the vali...

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Autores principales: Hardie, Diana, Korsman, Stephen, Ameer, Sharifa, Vojnov, Lara, Hsiao, Nei-Yuan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31269089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219381