Systematic Review of the Use of Dried Blood Spots for Monitoring HIV Viral Load and for Early Infant Diagnosis

Pieter W. Smit; Kimberly A. Sollis; Susan Fiscus; Nathan Ford; Marco Vitoria; Shaffiq Essajee; David Barnett; Ben Cheng; Suzanne M. Crowe; Thomas Denny; Alan Landay; Wendy Stevens; Vincent Habiyambere; Joseph H. Perriens; Rosanna W. Peeling

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086461

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Systematic Review of the Use of Dried Blood Spots for Monitoring HIV Viral Load and for Early Infant Diagnosis

Pieter W. Smit,

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Kimberly A. Sollis,

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Susan Fiscus,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Nathan Ford,

Affiliation Department of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Marco Vitoria,

Affiliation Department of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Shaffiq Essajee,

Affiliation HIV, Medicine and Science, Clinton Health Access Initiative, New York, New York, United States of America
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David Barnett,

Affiliation Department of Haematology, UK NEQAS for Leucocyte Immunophenotyping, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Ben Cheng,

Affiliation Department of Technology and Innovation, Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, San Fransisco, California, United States of America
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Suzanne M. Crowe,

Affiliation Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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Thomas Denny,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Alan Landay,

Affiliation Department of Immunology- Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Wendy Stevens,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Vincent Habiyambere,

Affiliation Department of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Joseph H. Perriens,

Affiliation Department of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Rosanna W. Peeling

* E-mail: rosanna.peeling@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Systematic Review of the Use of Dried Blood Spots for Monitoring HIV Viral Load and for Early Infant Diagnosis

Pieter W. Smit,
Kimberly A. Sollis,
Susan Fiscus,
Nathan Ford,
Marco Vitoria,
Shaffiq Essajee,
David Barnett,
Ben Cheng,
Suzanne M. Crowe,
Thomas Denny

Published: March 6, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086461

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