Oral fluid-based rapid HIV testing: issues, challenges and research directions.

نویسنده

  • Nitika Pant Pai
چکیده

‘... it is hoped that detection of [HIV-infected] individuals with high-quality, rapid, accurate point-of-care oral HIV tests will enable provision of early, timely and highly effective ART or expedite triage to care and prevention.’ Nitika Pant Pai McGill University Health Centre, Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunodeficiency Service, Montreal Chest Institute, 3650 St Urbain Street, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 2P4, Canada Tel.: +1 514 889 9604 [email protected] Expert Rev. Mol. Diagn. 7(4), 325–328 (2007)

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Expert review of molecular diagnostics

دوره 7 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007