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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2010

Performance evaluation of the new Roche Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan HIV-1 test version 2.0 for quantification of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA.

Suzan Pas, John W A Rossen, Daniel Schoener, Diana Thamke, Annika Pettersson, Reiner Babiel, Martin Schutten

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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24citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Early infant diagnosis HIV-1 PCR cycle-threshold predicts infant viral load at birth.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2019
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  6. Nucleic acid testing and molecular characterization of HIV infections.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2019
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  9. 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

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Suzan PasErasmus MC, Department of Virology, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
John W A Rossen
Daniel Schoener
Diana Thamke
Annika Pettersson
Reiner Babiel
Martin Schutten
Roche (Switzerland) · CHErasmus MC · NLAmsterdam UMC Location VUmc · NLElisabeth-TweeSteden Ziekenhuis · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite FDA approval and CE marking of commercial tests, manufacturer-independent testing of the technical aspects of newly developed tests is important. To evaluate the analytical performance and explore the clinical applicability of the new Roche COBAS AmpliPrep COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 test, version 2.0 (CAP/CTM v2.0), platform comparison was performed with the Roche CAP/CTM test, version 2.0, the COBAS Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor Test, version 1.5 (CAP/CA v1.5), the COBAS AmpliPrep COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 Test (CAP/CTM v1.0), and the Abbott m2000 RealTime HIV-1 assay on panels and diagnostic samples. Specificity was tested for HIV-2 samples. Furthermore, samples from HIV-1-seropositive individuals with CAP/CA v1.5-measured viral loads below 50 HIV-1 RNA copies per ml (cp/ml) and replicates of HIV-1-seronegative plasma were tested in a checkerboard analysis. CAP/CTM v2.0 is HIV-1 specific, with broad genotype inclusivity and no serious underquantification of viral load relative to the other assays used. Low viral loads below the threshold of quantification for CAP/CA v1.5 are observed with CAP/CTM v2.0. A CAP/CTM v2.0-measured viral load of >50 copies/ml in these samples correlated with therapy failure. In conclusion, CAP/CTM v2.0 is an accurate and reliable test for HIV-1 viral load measurement relative to the other assays used with respect to specificity, sensitivity, and genotype inclusivity.

Indexed as

Reagent Kits, DiagnosticHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansRNA, ViralSensitivity and SpecificityViral LoadReagent Kits, DiagnosticRNA, Viral

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PMID20164281
PMCPMC2849552
OpenAlexW2036895617

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