| Literature DB >> 17630562 |
Calman A MacLennan1, Joep J G van Oosterhout, Sarah A White, Mark T Drayson, Eduard E Zijlstra, Malcolm E Molyneux.
Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate the utility of finger-prick blood samples for CD4 cell counting. We estimated agreement between CD4 cell counts in paired finger-prick and venous samples from 110 HIV-infected adults from Malawi. Bias was 6.6 cells/microl (limits of agreement -50.7 and 63.7 cells/microl) for absolute counts and 0.71% (limits of agreement -2.07 and 3.48%) for %CD4/lymphocyte suggesting that finger-prick blood samples can be used interchangeably with venous samples for CD4 cell counting.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17630562 PMCID: PMC2408852 DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32823bcb03
Source DB: PubMed Journal: AIDS ISSN: 0269-9370 Impact factor: 4.177