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The detection of HIV-1 proviral DNA by PCR in clotted blood specimens.
Journal of virological methods - 1 Mar 1995
Boriskin YuS, Booth J C, Fernando S, Carrington D, Evans M R, Hay P, Coates A R
Abstract excerpt
Six hundred and ninety-two specimens, each consisting of a suspension of the residual free cells in samples of clotted blood (but not the clots themselves) from 680 patients at high risk for exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), were tested by a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedure which had been optimized to give a sensitivity of detection of one copy of HIV-1 proviral plasmid DNA, and the...
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