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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Rodgers MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5863103 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
AIDS research and human retroviruses 20180213 3
Periodic evaluation of the impact of viral diversity on diagnostic tests is critical to ensure current technologies are keeping pace with viral evolution. To determine whether HIV diversity impacts the ARCHITECT HIV Combo Ag/Ab (HIV Combo) or RealTime HIV-1 (RT) assays, a set of N = 199 HIV clinical specimens from Cameroon, Senegal, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand were sequenced and tested in both assays. The panel included historical groups N and P specimens and a newly identified group N specimen. ...[more]