| Literature DB >> 15184467 |
J Brooks Jackson1, Estelle Piwowar-Manning, LeTanya Johnson-Lewis, Roland Bassett, Lisa M Demeter, Donald Brambilla.
Abstract
We compared the performance of two UltraSensitive AMPLICOR HIV-1 MONITOR kits (version 1.5 [v1.5] versus v1.0) by retesting 404 plasma samples with low viral loads (<3,000 copies/ml) with both kits. With 292 samples that initially had <50 copies/ml by the v1.0 kit, the v1.5 assay was more sensitive than the v1.0 assay for samples with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA near the 50-copy/ml cutoff (P = 0.0146). Median numbers of copies per milliliter were similar for 112 samples with 50 to 3,000 copies/ml with no difference in sensitivity with a 200-copy/ml cutoff.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15184467 PMCID: PMC427852 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.6.2774-2776.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948