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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2008

Evaluation of the Abbott RealTime HBV DNA assay and comparison to the Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan 48 assay in monitoring patients with chronic cases of hepatitis B.

Marco Ciotti, Fabbio Marcuccilli, Tania Guenci, Maria Grazia Prignano, Carlo Federico Perno

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Marco CiottiLaboratory of Clinical Microbiology and Virology, University Hospital Tor Vergata, Viale Oxford, 81-00133 Rome, Italy. marco.ciotti@ptvonline.it
Fabbio Marcuccilli
Tania Guenci
Maria Grazia Prignano
Carlo Federico Perno

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The new Abbott RealTime hepatitis B virus (HBV) assay was compared to the Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan assay with 128 serum samples from patients with chronic hepatitis B. There was an excellent correlation (r = 0.961) between the two assays, with the Abbott RealTime test showing at least equivalent sensitivity and a slightly wider dynamic range than the Cobas TaqMan assay. By coupling high sensitivity with a large dynamic range, the Abbott RealTime HBV assay is useful in monitoring the response to antiviral therapy.

Indexed as

Reagent Kits, DiagnosticDNA, ViralHepatitis B, ChronicHepatitis B virusHumansLinear ModelsPolymerase Chain ReactionReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityTaq PolymeraseDNA, ViralReagent Kits, DiagnosticTaq Polymerase

Identifiers

PMID18272717
PMCPMC2292927

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