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Molecular assays for monitoring HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy
1 May 2007
Abstract excerpt
Infection with HIV results in lifelong persistence of the virus in the body of infected persons, independent of antiretroviral treatment. Therefore, efficient and meaningful therapy monitoring has been developed since its introduction in the 1980s. Whereas, primarily, the measurement of the CD4 cell count was the most important clinical marker of disease progression, nowadays the estimation of plasma viral load...
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