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Session 81
Poster Presentations Isolation and Quantification of HIV-1 in Biological Specimens Tuesday 1:30 - 3:30 pm Hall A |
| 664 | Development, Evaluation, and Potential Application of an In-house Viral Load Assay for Quantification of HIV-1 and HIV-2 in Human Plasma S. A. Alabi*1, T. Blanchard1, K. Ariyoshi2, N. Berry3, H. Whittle1 1Med Res Council Labs, Banjul, Gambia; 2Natl Inst of Hlth, Tokyo, Japan; and 3Natl Inst for Biological Standards and Control, London, UK |
| 665 | Plasma RNA Quantification and HIV-1-Divergent Strains M. Gueudin*1, J. C. Plantier1, F. Damond2, J. Braun1, P. Roques5, P. Mauclère3,4, F. Simon1 1Univ and Hosp, Rouen, France; 2Univ and Hosp Bichat, Paris, France; 3Inst Pasteur, Cameroun, France; 4Inst Pasteur, Madagascar; and 5Ctr Intl de Res Med de Franceville, Gabon |
| 666 | Comparative Performance of Two Viral Load Commercial Assays on HIV Subtype B and C B. Gotesman1, Z. Grossman2, M. Lorber3, I. Levi2, P. Shitrit1, F. Mileguir2, M. Y. Chowers*1 1Meir Med Ctr, Kfar Saba, Israel; 2Chaim Sheba Med Ctr, Tel Hashomer, Israel; and 3Rambam Med Ctr, Haifa, Israel |
| 667 | Quantitation of Genetically Diverse HIV Group M and O Specimens: A Challenge for Viral Load Assays P. Swanson1, A. Golden1, C. de Mendoza2, Y. Joshi3, P. Bodelle1, J. Yamaguchi1, C. Brennan1, V. Soriano2, R. L. Hodinka3, G. Schochetman1, S. Devare1, J. Hackett Jr.*1 1Abbott Labs, Abbott Park, IL; 2Inst de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and 3Children's Hosp of Philadelphia and Univ of Pennsylvania Sch of Med, PA |
| 668 | Unexpected Low-positive HIV Viral Loads: An Analysis of Blips P. Heseltine*1, R. Kagan1, H. Hamdan1, K. Chen1, W. Meyer2, T. McCormick3, M. Lewinski1 1Nichols Inst San Juan Cap, CA; 2Quest Diagnostics, Baltimore, MD; and 3Quest Diagnostics, Teterboro, NJ |
| 669 | Evaluation of a Commercially Available Ultrasensitive p24 Antigen Viral Load Assay in Samples from Patients Infected with Genetically Diverse HIV-1 from Different Geographic Settings R. Respess*1, A. Cachafeiro2, S. Fiscus2, D. Newman1, B. Branson1, O. Varnier3, M. Rayfield1, R. Downing4, D. Withum1, W. Stevens5, A. Tehe6, T. Dondero1 1CDC, Atlanta, GA; 2Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 3Univ of Genova, Italy; 4CDC-Uganda, Entebbe, Uganda; 5Univ of Witwatersrand and Natl Hlth Lab Service, Johannesburg, South Africa; and 6Projet RETRO-CI, Abidjan, Ivory Coast |
| 670 | Evaluation of Heat-Denatured HIV-1 p24 Antigen as an Alternative, Inexpensive Marker for HIV-1 RNA Viral Load in Non-B HIV-1 Subtypes in Sub-Saharan Africa L. A. Spacek*1, C. Henson1, R. H. Gray1, M. J. Wawer2, D. Serwadda3, N. Sewankambo3, J. Schupbach4, O. Laeyendecker1, T. C. Quinn1 1Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD; 2Columbia Univ, New York, NY; 3Makerere Univ, Kampala, Uganda; and 4Univ of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 671 | Quantitation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) in Breast Milk M. Ghosh*1, L. Kuhn2, J. West3, K. Semrau4, D. Decker1, D. Thea4, G. Aldrovandi1 1Univ of Alabama at Birmingham; 2Columbia Univ, New York, NY; 3Univ of Nebraska; and 4Boston Univ, MA |
| 672 | An Improved Culture Method for Stimulating the Production of HIV from PBMCs C. Jennings*1, D. Brambilla2, D. Huang1, J. Bremer1 1Rush Med Coll, Chicago, IL and 2New England Res Inst Inc, Watertown, MA |