Performance of a transcription-mediated-amplification HIV-1 RNA assay in pooled specimens.
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چکیده
BACKGROUND Very limited data exist on the comparative performance of nucleic acid amplification tests (NATs) for the screening of pooled specimens for acute human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. STUDY DESIGN In this study, we compared a transcription-mediated-amplification assay (Procleix HIV-1 Discriminatory Assay, [TMA]) with a branched DNA assay (Bayer Versant HIV-1 RNA 3.0 assay, [bDNA]). RESULTS After re-testing 1552 samples that were negative for HIV RNA by bDNA, we found one additional positive sample with the TMA assay. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that TMA could potentially detect acute HIV infections missed by other technologies.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology
دوره 40 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007