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HIV Type 2 Proviral Load Measured by Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Correlates with CD4 <sup>+</sup> Lymphopenia in HIV Type 2-Infected Individuals
1 Aug 1994
Abstract excerpt
The efficiency of detection of 2 sets of primer pairs from putatively conserved regions of the human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) genome were assessed in 86 seropositive individuals from The Gambia by nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR). HIV-2 long terminal repeat (LTR) target sequences were detected in DNA extracted from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in 84 of 86 (97%) individuals whereas...
