Misclassification of Antiretroviral Treatment Failure Using WHO 2006 and 2010/2013 Immunologic Criteria in HIV-Infected Children and Adolescents in Western Kenya.
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SUBMITTER: Dufort EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5907858 | biostudies-other | 2017 Sep
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Misclassification of Antiretroviral Treatment Failure Using WHO 2006 and 2010/2013 Immunologic Criteria in HIV-Infected Children and Adolescents in Western Kenya.
Dufort Elizabeth M EM DeLong Allison K AK Mann Marita M Nyandiko Winstone M WM Ayaya Samuel O SO Hogan Joseph W JW Kantor Rami R
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 20170901 3
We evaluated treatment failure misclassification in human immunodeficiency virus-infected Kenyan children whose targeted viral loads were determined after suspected immunologic/clinical failure according to 2006 and 2010/2013 World Health Organization guidelines. The misclassification rate was 21% for the 2006 guidelines and 46% for the 2010/2013 guidelines, which supports current recommendations for routine viral load monitoring but not necessarily the proposed CD4 thresholds. ...[more]
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