Dried blood spots for viral load monitoring in Malawi: feasible and effective.

Dried blood spots for viral load monitoring in Malawi: feasible and effective.

To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of dried blood spots (DBS) use for viral load (VL) monitoring, describing patient outcomes and programmatic challenges that are relevant for DBS implementation in sub-Saharan Africa.We recruited adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) patients from five distr...

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Main Authors: Sarah E Rutstein, Mina C Hosseinipour, Deborah Kamwendo, Alice Soko, Memory Mkandawire, Andrea K Biddle, William C Miller, Morris Weinberger, Stephanie B Wheeler, Abdoulaye Sarr, Sundeep Gupta, Frank Chimbwandira, Reuben Mwenda, Steve Kamiza, Irving Hoffman, Ronald Mataya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4405546?pdf=render

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