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SUBMITTER: Hayden RT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5277511 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hayden R T RT Sun Y Y Tang L L Procop G W GW Hillyard D R DR Pinsky B A BA Young S A SA Caliendo A M AM
Journal of clinical microbiology 20161116 2
It has been hoped that the recent availability of WHO quantitative standards would improve interlaboratory agreement for viral load testing; however, insufficient data are available to evaluate whether this has been the case. Results from 554 laboratories participating in proficiency testing surveys for quantitative PCR assays of cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), BK virus (BKV), adenovirus (ADV), and human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6) were evaluated to determine overall result variability ...[more]