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ArticleMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz2016

An in-house real-time polymerase chain reaction: standardisation and comparison with the Cobas Amplicor HBV monitor and Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan HBV tests for the quantification of hepatitis B virus DNA.

Ana Paula de Torres Santos, José Eduardo Levi, Marcilio Figueiredo Lemos, Samira Julien Calux, Isabel Takano Oba, Regina Célia Moreira

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Article in Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2016. 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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2citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. [Monitoring by high-sensitivity HBV DNA assay during treatment in chronic hepatitis B e antigen negative patients].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ana Paula de Torres SantosHospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
José Eduardo LeviLaboratório de Virologia, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Marcilio Figueiredo LemosNúcleo de Doenças Sanguíneas e Sexuais, Centro de Virologia, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Samira Julien CaluxNúcleo de Doenças Sanguíneas e Sexuais, Centro de Virologia, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Isabel Takano ObaNúcleo de Doenças Sanguíneas e Sexuais, Centro de Virologia, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Regina Célia MoreiraNúcleo de Doenças Sanguíneas e Sexuais, Centro de Virologia, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Instituto Adolfo Lutz · BRUniversidade Brasil · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to standardise an in-house real-time polymerase chain reaction (rtPCR) to allow quantification of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in serum or plasma samples, and to compare this method with two commercial assays, the Cobas Amplicor HBV monitor and the Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan HBV test. Samples from 397 patients from the state of São Paulo were analysed by all three methods. Fifty-two samples were from patients who were human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus positive, but HBV negative. Genotypes were characterised, and the viral load was measure in each sample. The in-house rtPCR showed an excellent success rate compared with commercial tests; inter-assay and intra-assay coefficients correlated with commercial tests (r = 0.96 and r = 0.913, p < 0.001) and the in-house test showed no genotype-dependent differences in detection and quantification rates. The in-house assay tested in this study could be used for screening and quantifying HBV DNA in order to monitor patients during therapy.

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Molecular Diagnostic TechniquesAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overChildChild, PreschoolDNA PrimersDNA, ViralEvaluation Studies as TopicFemaleGenotypeGenotyping TechniquesHepatitis B, ChronicHepatitis B virusHepatitis CDNA PrimersDNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID26872342
PMCPMC4750454
OpenAlexW2252346852

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