Pooled testing: A tool to increase efficiency of infant HIV diagnosis and virological monitoring

Background: Pooled testing, or pooling, has been used for decades to efficiently diagnose relatively rare conditions, such as infection in blood donors. Programmes for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and for antiretroviral therapy (ART) are being rolled out in much of Africa an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wolfgang Preiser, Gert U. van Zyl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2020-08-01
Series:African Journal of Laboratory Medicine
Subjects:
hiv
Online Access:https://ajlmonline.org/index.php/ajlm/article/view/1035