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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2007

Comparative evaluation of the automated Roche TaqMan real-time quantitative human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA PCR assay and the Roche AMPLICOR Version 1.5 conventional PCR assay.

Anthony R Oliver, Spyridon F Pereira, Duncan A Clark

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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 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Concordance of HIV-1 RNA Values by Amplicor and TaqMan 2.0 in Patients With Confirmed Suppression in Clinical Trials.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anthony R OliverDiagnostic Virology (Division of Infection), Barts and the London NHS Trust, Pathology & Pharmacy Building, London, UK. tony.oliver@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk
Spyridon F Pereira
Duncan A Clark

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The need to evaluate antiviral treatment response and the emergence of resistance have made the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viral load assay a major feature of the diagnostic monitoring of HIV-infected individuals. The objective of this study was to evaluate the utility of the recently In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Directive-approved Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/TaqMan96 real-time PCR assay by comparison with the existing Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/AMPLICOR MONITOR conventional PCR assay. EDTA-treated plasma samples from 191 HIV-1-infected individuals were tested for HIV-1 RNA by the AMPLICOR assay and the TaqMan assay. This was a prospective study using 191 pairs of samples from the same bleed per patient. The correlation coefficient of the assays was 98.08%. The mean difference between the assays was 0.05 log(10) copy/ml plasma, with a standard deviation (SD) of 0.27 log(10) copy/ml plasma. Thirteen samples gave results with variances greater than 0.5 log(10) copy/ml plasma, which is our clinical cutoff. Two samples were more than 3 SD different (0.81 log(10) copy/ml plasma). The TaqMan assay appeared to be slightly more sensitive at the lower end of the dynamic range. The assays correlated significantly (P > 0.95) with each other, and the regression analysis was also highly significant (R(2) > 0.95).

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GenotypeHIV-1HumansPolymerase Chain ReactionProspective StudiesRNA, ViralViral LoadRNA, Viral

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PMID17804650
PMCPMC2168503

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