Utilization of dried blood spot specimens can expedite nationwide surveillance of HIV drug resistance in resource-limited settings.

Utilization of dried blood spot specimens can expedite nationwide surveillance of HIV drug resistance in resource-limited settings.

INTRODUCTION:Surveillance of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) is crucial to ensuring the continued success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs. With the concern of reduced genotyping sensitivity of HIV on dried blood spots (DBS), DBS for HIVDR surveillance have been limited to ART-naïve populations....

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Main Authors: Guoqing Zhang, Joshua DeVos, Sandra Medina-Moreno, Nicholas Wagar, Karidia Diallo, R Suzanne Beard, Du-Ping Zheng, Christine Mwachari, Carolyn Riwa, Boniface Jullu, Ngugi Evelyn Wangari, Mary S Kibona, Lucy W Ng'Ang'A, Elliot Raizes, Chunfu Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6128523?pdf=render

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