A protocol for feasibility of plasma based GeneXpert platform and Dried Blood Spot (DBS) based Abbott platform for HIV-1 viral load testing among the people living with HIV attending ART centers in India

• Suchit Kamble ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Suchit Kamble, Pallavi Shidhaye

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: skamble@nariindia.org

  Affiliation ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8040-3939

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• Pallavi Shidhaye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Suchit Kamble, Pallavi Shidhaye

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3903-2830

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• Anupam Mukherjee,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0612-2258

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• Madhuri Tak,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

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• Shilpa Bembalkar,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

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• Sumit Aggarwal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0652-1611

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• Arpita Deb,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National AIDS Control Organization, New Delhi, India

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• Neha Kapoor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National AIDS Control Organization, New Delhi, India

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• Vinita Verma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National AIDS Control Organization, New Delhi, India

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• Chinmoyee Das,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National AIDS Control Organization, New Delhi, India

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• Smita Kulkarni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

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• Manisha Ghate,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

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• Sheela Godbole

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

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