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A qualitative PCR minipool strategy to screen for virologic failure and antiretroviral drug resistance in South African patients on first-line antiretroviral therapy.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Aug 2014
Newman Howard, Breunig Lukas, van Zyl Gert, Stich August, Preiser Wolfgang
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The high cost of commercial HIV-1 viral load tests for monitoring of patients on antiretroviral treatment limits their use in resource-constrained settings. Commercial genotypic antiretroviral resistance testing is even more costly, yet it provides important benefits. OBJECTIVES: We s...
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