Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
3370500 Journal of Clinical Virology 2008 5 Pages PDF
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ObjectiveTo evaluate the performance of the Abbott RealTime™ HIV-1 assay for measuring viral loads of the prevalent HIV-1 clades in China.Study designSerially diluted samples, as well as 521 clinical samples from 213 untreated HIV-1-infected individuals, 56 HIV-1-infected patients receiving ART, 60 HCV- and 57 HBV-infected patients and 135 healthy blood donors, were tested with RealTime™ and EasyQ™.ResultsBoth assays exhibited linearity coefficients of >0.98. RealTime™ and EasyQ™ detected HIV-1 RNA in 87.36% and 86.99% of 269 HIV-1-seropositive samples, respectively. The correlation coefficients between the two assays for quantifying HIV-1 clades B′, BC and AE were 0.884, 0.813 and 0.881, respectively, and the mean differences between the two assays for clades B′, BC and AE were −0.087, 0.314 and 0.559 log10 IU/mL, respectively. The correlation coefficient between the two assays for measuring samples from patients receiving ART was 0.945 (mean difference, 0.085 log10 IU/mL). No false-positive samples were found among the 60 HCV-infected patients, 57 HBV-infected patients and 135 healthy blood donors.ConclusionsThe Abbott RealTime™ HIV-1 assay shows good linearity and specificity. ART drugs and HIV-1 clades B′ and BC do not affect the performance of the assay. However, clade AE may be less readily detected.

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