Low-cost assays for monitoring HIV infected individuals in resource-limited settings
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Low-cost assays for monitoring HIV infected individuals in resource-limited settings
Use of a combination of CD4 counts and HIV viral load testing in the management of antiretroviral therapy (ART) provides higher prognostic estimation of the risk of disease progression than does the use of either test alone. The standard methods to monitor HIV infection are flow cytometry based for CD4+ T cell count and molecular assays to quantify plasma viral load of HIV. Commercial assays ha...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Indian Journal of Medical Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0971-5916
DOI: 10.4103/0971-5916.92628