Comparison of the performance of Aptima HIV-1 Quant Dx Assay with Abbott RealTime HIV Assay for viral load monitoring using plasma and Dried Blood Spots collected in Kenya

• Matilu Mwau ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mmwau@kemri.go.ke

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6754-7292

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• Sven Schaffer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources

  Current address: Illumina Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Affiliation Hologic, Deutschland GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany

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• Humphrey Kimani,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Purity Kasiano,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Francis Ogolla,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Elizabeth Ajema,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Scriven Adoyo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Ednah Nyairo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Norah Saleri,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Sangeetha Vijaysri Nair

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hologic, Inc. San Diego, California, United States of America

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