Bridging the monitoring gap in resource-limited settings: A head-to-head evaluation of two Chinese HIV-1 RNA quantification assays and Roche TaqMan

• Jiafeng Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work as co-first authors.

  Affiliations Department of HIV/AIDS Control and Prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Zhejiang AIDS/STD Prevention Association, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4288-5516

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• Xiaobei Ding ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work as co-first authors.

  Affiliations Department of HIV/AIDS Control and Prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Zhejiang AIDS/STD Prevention Association, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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• Qin Fan,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of HIV/AIDS Control and Prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Zhejiang AIDS/STD Prevention Association, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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• Jiezhe Yang,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of HIV/AIDS Control and Prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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• Yan Xia,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of HIV/AIDS Control and Prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Zhejiang AIDS/STD Prevention Association, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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• Chengliang Chai

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

  * E-mail: chlchai@cdc.zj.cn

  Affiliations Department of HIV/AIDS Control and Prevention, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Key Lab of Vaccine, Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Zhejiang AIDS/STD Prevention Association, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7238-992X

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