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Detection of emerging HIV variants in blood donors from urban areas of Cameroon.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Oct 2007
Lee S, Wood O, Tang S, Hu J, Machuca A, Kerby S, Awazi B, Vockley C, Hewlett I
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has licensed several assays for use in donor testing and management of persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. However, the performance of these assays for detection and quantitation of emerging HIV genetic variants has not been studied extensively. We tested 240 human plasma specimens collected from two urban blood centers in Cameroon where HIV genetic...
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