First external quality assurance program for bloodstream Real-Time PCR monitoring of treatment response in clinical trials of Chagas disease.

First external quality assurance program for bloodstream Real-Time PCR monitoring of treatment response in clinical trials of Chagas disease.

Real-Time PCR (qPCR) testing is recommended as both a diagnostic and outcome measurement of etiological treatment in clinical practice and clinical trials of Chagas disease (CD), but no external quality assurance (EQA) program provides performance assessment of the assays in use. We implemented an E...

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Main Authors: Juan C Ramírez, Rudy Parrado, Elena Sulleiro, Anabelle de la Barra, Marcelo Rodríguez, Sandro Villarroel, Lucía Irazu, Cristina Alonso-Vega, Fabiana Alves, María A Curto, Lineth García, Lourdes Ortiz, Faustino Torrico, Joaquim Gascón, Laurence Flevaud, Israel Molina, Isabela Ribeiro, Alejandro G Schijman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5703561?pdf=render

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