Diagnostics
New data illuminates research in diagnostics
Published in AIDS Weekly, June 27th, 2005
Study 1: HIV and hepatitis virus nucleic acids remain stable during long-term storage.
"The implementation of nucleic acid amplification technology (NAT) for detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 and hepatitis B virus (HBV) has undoubtedly contributed to the viral safety of blood, reducing the window period. One important matter related to the stability of RNA/DNA is the effect of the storage conditions on samples. In a previous work, we studied the stability of HCV RNA in plasma samples after storage at different...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2005-06-27)
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