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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2007

Comparison of the abbott 7000 and bayer 340 systems for measurement of hepatitis C virus load.

Helene C Highbarger, Zonghui Hu, Shyam Kottilil, Julia A Metcalf, Michael A Polis, M B Vasudevachari, H Clifford Lane, Robin L Dewar

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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8 authors.

Helene C HighbargerVirus Isolation and Serology Laboratory, SAIC--Frederick, Inc., NCI--Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA. hhighbarge@mail.nih.gov
Zonghui Hu
Shyam Kottilil
Julia A Metcalf
Michael A Polis
M B Vasudevachari
H Clifford Lane
Robin L Dewar

Funding

PATHOGENIC MECHANISMS IN HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTIONSZ01AI000585 · NIAID · NIAID EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES · PI LANE, HENRY C · 1990 to 2008
$4.5M
IMMUNOLOGIC APPROACHES TO THE THERAPY OF HIV-1 INFECTIONZ01AI000636 · NIAID · NIAID EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES · PI LANE, HENRY C · 1992 to 2008
$377k
Therapeutic Strategies for the Management of HCV/HIV co- infectionZ01AI000390 · NIAID · NIAID EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES · PI FAUCI, ANTHONY S. · 1985 to 2008
$348k
NCI NIH HHS N01 CO012400NCI NIH HHS N01-CO-12400
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study compared two commercially available assays for the measurement of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA levels, the Bayer HCV RNA (version 3.0) branched DNA assay and the Abbott HCV analyte-specific reagent real-time PCR assay, to assess their quantitative relationships, ease of performance, and time to completion. The study group consisted of randomly selected patients from the NIAID human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) outpatient clinic who were infected with HIV type 1 and HCV. One hundred eighty-four samples from 66 patients coinfected with HIV and HCV receiving treatments under various protocols were analyzed for the correlation and agreement of the results. The results indicated that the two assays correlate well in the overlapping linear ranges of the assays and show good agreement. From the results obtained, we have derived a mathematical formula to compare the viral load results between the two assays, which is given as log(10) Abbott assay measure = 0.032 + 1.01 log(10) Bayer assay measure. Although it is preferable to use the same quantitation assay throughout the course of a patient's treatment, valid comparisons of the HCV RNA levels may be made between the results obtained by either of these assays in the overlapping linear range (615 to 7,700,000 IU/ml).

Indexed as

HepacivirusHepatitis CHIV InfectionsHumansMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesRandom AllocationReagent Kits, DiagnosticRNA, ViralViral LoadReagent Kits, DiagnosticRNA, Viral

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PMID17596352
PMCPMC2045268

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