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Use of Dried Plasma Spots for HIV-1 Viral Load Determination and Drug Resistance Genotyping in Mexican Patients.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2015
Rodriguez-Auad Juan Pablo, Rojas-Montes Othon, Maldonado-Rodriguez Angelica, Alvarez-Muñoz Ma Teresa, Muñoz Onofre, Torres-Ibarra Rocio, Vazquez-Rosales Guillermo, Lira Rosalia
Abstract excerpt
Monitoring antiretroviral therapy using measurements of viral load (VL) and the genotyping of resistance mutations is not routinely performed in low- to middle-income countries because of the high costs of the commercial assays that are used. The analysis of dried plasma spot (DPS) samples on filter paper may represent an alternative for resource-limited settings. Therefore, we evaluated the usefulness of...
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