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Multilaboratory comparison of hepatitis C virus viral load assays.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2006
Caliendo A M, Valsamakis A, Zhou Y, Yen-Lieberman B, Andersen J, Young S, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Tsongalis G J, Pyles R, Bremer J W, Lurain N S
Abstract excerpt
We report a multilaboratory evaluation of hepatitis C virus (HCV) viral load assays to determine their linear range, reproducibility, subtype detection, and agreement. A panel of HCV RNA samples ranging in nominal concentration from 1.0 to 7.0 log10 IU/ml was constructed by diluting a clinical specimen (genotype 1b). Replicates of the panel were tested in multiple laboratories using the Abbott TaqMan...
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