2007•Journal of Clinical MicrobiologyOpen access

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Plasma Load Discrepancies between the Roche COBAS AMPLICOR HIV-1 MONITOR Version 1.5 and the Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 Assays

Florence Damond, Bénédicte Roquebert, Antoine Bénard, Gilles Collin, Maria-Augusta Miceli, P. Yéni, Françoise Brun‐Vézinet, Diane Descamps

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Abstract

We compared plasma viral load values obtained with COBAS AMPLICOR human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) MONITOR version 1.5 and with COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 assays. Mean values were 4.2 and 2.9 log(10) copies/ml, respectively, showing the lack of agreement between the two assays.

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Key concepts: Virology, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Viral load, TaqMan, Lentivirus, Medicine, Viral disease, Biology