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Design and implementation of an external quality assessment program for HIV viral load measurements using dried blood
Lisa M Prach1, Adrian Puren2, Sheri A Lippman1
1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|December 19, 2014
Abstract:
An external quality assurance program was developed for HIV-1 RNA viral load measurements taken from dried blood spots using a reference panel and field-collected specimens. The program demonstrated that accurate and reproducible quantitation can be obtained from field-collected specimens. Residual proviral DNA may confound interpretation in virologically suppressed subjects.
