HIV/AIDS

Increasing Diversity of HIV Strains Impacts Diagnostic Test Accuracy

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 23rd, 2009

As genetically divergent strains of the HIV virus become increasingly prevalent in the United States, the ability of clinicians to effectively monitor progress of anti-viral drug therapies depends on the capacity of viral load assays to accurately quantitate, or measure, these variant HIV strains, according to research reported at the 16th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI).

A study by the Global HIV Surveillance Program at Abbott (NYSE:ABT) showed significant variation in the ability of diagnostic tests to accurately monitor viral load in patients infected with differing strains, or subtypes, of the HIV virus. The study evaluated...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-02-23)

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