Article
HIV-1 drug resistance surveillance using dried whole blood spots.
Antiviral therapy - 1 Jan 2007
Bertagnolio Silvia, Soto-Ramirez Luis, Pilon Richard, Rodriguez Roberto, Viveros Monica, Fuentes Luis, Harrigan P Richard, Mo Theresa, Sutherland Don, Sandstrom Paul
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Field-friendly methods for HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) surveillance in resource-limited regions are urgently needed. Despite evidence that dried blood spots (DBS) are suitable for HIV serology, viral load and CD4+ T-cell enumeration, no study has evaluated DBS for HIVDR genotyping. We...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Blood Specimen Collection
- Drug Resistance, Viral
- Feasibility Studies
- Female
- Genotype
- HIV Infections
- HIV Protease
- HIV Reverse Transcriptase
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Male
- Mexico
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Phylogeny