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HIV-1 detection and subtyping by PCR and heteroduplex mobility assay in blood donors: can these tests help to elucidate conflicting serological results?
Transfusion science - 1 Mar 1998
Barbosa E F, Carneiro-Proietti A B, Oliveira D R, Lima-Martins M V, Kroon E G, Ferreira P C
Abstract excerpt
Testing blood donors for the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV-1 and 2), requires serological tests that are frequently inconclusive. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 50 blood donors with the screening test (ELISA) reactive to HIV-1, but with indeterminate results in the first Western Blot (WB) performed, were submitted to the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and heteroduplex mobility assay (HMA), a...
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