Genotyping External Quality Assurance in the World Health Organization HIV Drug Resistance Laboratory Network During 2007–2010
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Genotyping external quality assurance in the World Health Organization HIV drug resistance laboratory network during 2007-2010.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a global laboratory network to support human immunodeficiency virus drug resistance genotyping for public health surveillance in resource-limited countries. Blinded proficiency panels are an essential part of a genotyping quality-assurance program and are used to monitor the reliability of genotyping data in the WHO laboratory network. Laborator...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1537-6591,1058-4838
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir992