Viral load
Quantitative and Cost Comparison of Ultrasensitive Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA Viral Load Assays: Bayer bDNA Quantiplex Versions 3 0 and 2 0 and Roche PCR Amplicor Monitor Version 1 5
... Given the comparability of assay results, other factors, such as assay components, labor, disposables, and biohazardous waste, may influence the selection of a viral load assay in a clinical setting. Based ...
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Effect of Viral Load on the Outcome of Herpes Zoster
... of viral load with risk factors for PHN, other than prodromal ...of viral load with PHN or for the quantification of viral DNA during ...
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A cheap and open HIV viral load technique applicable in routine analysis in a resource limited setting with a wide HIV genetic diversity
... Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a major public health problem in the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where the majority of patients live. An outstanding characteristic of the virus is its ...
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HPV viral load in self collected vaginal fluid samples as predictor for presence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia
... baseline viral load was higher in persistent infections, and the au- thors concluded that hrHPV viral load is a marker for persistent ...hrHPV viral load mea- surements it is ...
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Viral Load of Human Herpesvirus 8 in Peripheral Blood of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infected Patients with Kaposi's Sarcoma
... DNA viral load, HIV RNA viral load, CD4 cell counts, and plasma HHV-8 ...DNA viral load. The covariates, HIV RNA viral load, CD4 cell counts, and lytic and latent ...
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Quantitation of Cytomegalovirus DNA Load in Dried Blood Spots Correlates Well with Plasma Viral Load
... CMV viral load thresholds (1, 25). The appropriate viral load threshold for initiating antiviral therapy in hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients appears to be lower (26) than that ...
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Measles viral load may reflect SSPE disease progression
... high viral load alone did not seem to be responsible for death, but may have accelerated destruction of ...restricts viral growth and so reduces viral load and the speed of disease ...
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Point of Care Cepheid Xpert HIV 1 Viral Load Test in Rural African Communities Is Feasible and Reliable
... Statistical methods. We assume that missing data (insufficient plasma volume and QC errors) were missing completely at random. Correlation analysis was performed using the Spearman rank test. To determine differences ...
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Comparison of HCV viral load and its genotype distributions in HCV mono and HIV/HCV co infected illicit drug users
... In the present study, we did not assess the correlation between CD4+ T-cell count and HCV viral load. As re- ported in previous studies, the critical point is increasing viral load in patients ...
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GeneXpert HIV 1 quant assay, a new tool for scale up of viral load monitoring in the success of ART programme in India
... care viral load technologies is essential in resource limited ...HIV-1 viral load in India to monitor the success of national ART programme was carried ...nine viral load ranges ...
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High Viral Load in the Cerebrospinal Fluid and Brain Correlates with Severity of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Encephalitis
... inoculation. Viral load in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was examined longitudinally to onset of AIDS, and viral load was measured in brain tissue at necropsy to examine the ...
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Multilaboratory Comparison of Hepatitis C Virus Viral Load Assays
... Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an important cause of hepatitis and is the leading indication for liver transplantation in the United States. Therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin has become the standard of care, ...
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Quality of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Viral Load Testing in Australia
... (HIV-1) viral loads and the accuracies of two assays used for HIV-1 viral load measurement in Australia and investigated the variability of the new versions of these ...HIV-1 viral load ...
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Association of HCV genotype with viral load among Iranian blood donors: a penalized logistic regression
... HCV viral load testing, HCV viral loads were determined by an in-house one-step TaqMan Real-Time RT-PCR assay using LightCycler instrument (Roche, Germany) to amplify a segment of non-coding region ...
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Role of HIV 1 Viral Load in Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy
... and age more than or equal to 15 yrs were enrolled in this study. Blood sample was collected and viral load was estimated by COBAS® TaqMan® HIV-1 Test. Result: During the study period of one year, 8966 ...
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HLA alleles modulate EBV viral load in multiple sclerosis
... 500 ng of genomic DNA was used as the template for quantitative evaluation by quantitative PCR (qPCR) using the ABI Prism 7000 sequence detection system (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, US), and following a previ- ...
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Cumulative Impact of Host and Viral Factors on HIV-1 Viral-Load Control during Early Infection
... set-point viral load strongly predicts both viral transmission and disease ...set-point viral loads are complex and likely reflect an interplay between the transmitted virus and genetically ...
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Viral Dynamics during Structured Treatment Interruptions of Chronic Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection
... plasma viral loads were higher than 3,000 copies/ml in two consecutive determinations, after which HAART was resumed for ...RNA load was measured on frozen EDTA-plasma samples by using an Amplicor HIV-1 ...
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Loss of cerebellar neurons in the progression of lentiviral disease: effects of CNS-permeant antiretroviral therapy
... brain viral load and consecutively eliminated productive SIV infection in the cerebellum, a low-grade microglial/macrophage activation is persistent as indicated by the constantly high number of perivascu- ...
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Viral Phenotypes and Antibody Responses in Long-Term Survivors Infected with Attenuated Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Containing Deletions in the nef and Long Terminal Repeat Regions
... detectable viral-load set points, less than 10,000 ...undetectable viral load and weak, delayed antibody responses in an unrelated individual infected with nef-attenuated HIV-1 ...the ...
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