| Literature DB >> 25502524 |
Eva Malatinkova1, Maja Kiselinova1, Pawel Bonczkowski1, Wim Trypsteen1, Peter Messiaen1, Jolien Vermeire2, Bruno Verhasselt2, Karen Vervisch1, Linos Vandekerckhove3, Ward De Spiegelaere1.
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Episomal HIV-1 two-long terminal repeat (2-LTR) circles are considered markers for ongoing viral replication. Two sample processing procedures were compared to accurately quantify 2-LTR in patients by using droplet digital PCR (ddPCR). Here, we show that plasmid isolation with a spiked non-HIV plasmid for normalization enables more accurate 2-LTR quantification than genomic DNA isolation.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25502524 PMCID: PMC4298544 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03087-14
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948