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Use of plastic vacutainer tubes for quantification of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in blood specimens
M L Landry1, R Garner, D Ferguson
1Clinical Virology Laboratory, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. marie.landry@yale.edu
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|January 4, 2001
Abstract:
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 viral load results were compared for paired samples collected in plastic and glass Vacutainer tubes, using both standard (n = 60) and ultrasensitive (n = 66) assays. The results showed a strong correlation (P < 0.0001), and plastic tubes can be substituted for glass tubes.