SUMMARY HIV diagnostics have played a central role in the remarkable progress in
identifying, staging, initiating, and monitoring infected individuals on life-saving antiretroviral …

Despite advances in antiretroviral therapy that have revolutionized HIV disease
management, effective control of the HIV infection pandemic remains elusive. Beyond the …

Background Tuberculosis remains an important cause of death among patients infected with
the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Robust data are lacking with regard to the timing …

We have identified a new human immunodeficiency virus in a Cameroonian woman. It is
closely related to gorilla simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVgor) and shows no evidence of …

Background Durable HIV-1 remission after interruption of combined antiretroviral therapy
(ART) has been reported in some adults who started treatment during primary infection; …

HIV‐1 diagnosis in babies born to seropositive mothers is one of the challenges of HIV
epidemics in children. A simple, rapid protocol was developed for quantifying HIV‐1 DNA in …

Commercial HIV-1 RNA viral load assays have been routinely used in developed countries
to monitor antiretroviral treatment (ART). However, these assays require expensive …

Background. It has been proposed that subtype-related human immunodeficiency virus type
1 (HIV-1) variability may influence virologic and immunologic responses to highly active …

ABSTRACT A quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) assay with single-copy sensitivity
targeting HIV-1 gag RNA (the gag single-copy assay [gSCA]) has been used widely to …

OBJECTIVE: To compare performance of testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1
DNA and HIV-1 RNA for diagnosis of HIV-1 infection in infants receiving preventive …