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Early Detection of Perinatal Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Type 1 Infection Using HIV RNA Amplification and Detection
1 Mar 1997
Abstract excerpt
Early diagnosis of perinatally transmitted human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) infection can guide early interventions. HIV coculture and DNA polymerase chain reaction (DNA-PCR) detect few HIV-infected infants at birth and 90%-100% by age 3 months. Because extracellular HIV RNA may appear soon after infection, a plasma HIV RNA assay was compared with DNA-PCR for early detection of perinatally infected...
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