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Validation of two commercial real-time PCR assays for rapid screening of the HLA-B*57:01 allele in the HIV clinical laboratory.
Journal of virological methods - 1 Nov 2016
Avidor Boaz, Girshengorn Shirley, Giladi Liran, Israel Shoshana, Katz Rina, Turner Dan
Abstract excerpt
The pharmacogenetics approach to screen for the presence of the HLA-B*57:01 allele in HIV-1 infected patients is mandatory to prevent the potential development of hypersensitivity reaction to abacavir treatment. Given the limitations of current genotype methodologies, commercial real-time PCR assays were specifically developed for this purpose, but have not been sufficiently validated and are still not widely...
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