Comparison of Alere q whole blood viral load with DBS and plasma viral load in the classification of HIV virological failure.

BACKGROUND:In remote settings, timely plasma separation and transportation to testing laboratories is an impediment to the access of HIV viral load (VL) testing. Potential solutions are whole blood testing through point of care (POC) assays or dried blood spots (DBS). METHODS:We evaluated the perfor...

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Main Authors: Aabida Khan, Lucia Hans, Nei-Yuan Hsiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232345