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Session 125
Poster Abstracts
Viral Load Assays
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Hall A
734
Evaluation of an Ultrasensitive p24 Antigen Assay as an Alternative for Nucleic Acid Testing in the Diagnosis of Pediatric HIV-1 Infection in Infants
Richard Respess*
1
, M Bulterys
1
, A Cachafeiro
2
, E Abrams
3
, J Wiener
1
, B Branson
1
, D Withum
1
, D Newman
1
, T Dondero
1
, and S Fiscus
2
1
CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA;
2
Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; and
3
Columbia Univ, New York, NY, USA
735
Ultrasensitive Detection of HIV-1 p24
CA
and p7
NC
Antigens in Plasma by Nanoparticle-based Bio-Bar Code Amplification Testing
Eun-Young Kim*
1
, K B Lee
2
, J M Nam
2
, J Lifson
3
, C Mirkin
2
, and S Wolinsky
1
1
Northwestern Univ, Feinberg Sch of Med, Chicago, IL, USA;
2
Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL, USA; and
3
AIDS Vaccine Program, SAIC Frederick, Inc., NCI-Frederick, Frederick, MD, USA
736
Comparative Performance of Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor Assay vs NucliSens EasyQ in HIV Subtype-C-infected Patients
B Gottesman
1
, Z Grossman
2
, M Lorber
3
, I Levi
2
, P Shitrit
1
, M Katzir
1
, and Michal Chowers*
1
1
Meir Med Ctr, Kfar Saba, Israel;
2
Chaim Sheba Med Ctr, Tel-Hashomer, Israel; and
3
Rambam Med Ctr, Haifa, Israel
737
Multi-laboratory Comparison of 2 Commercial Real-time HCV Viral Load Assays
Angela Caliendo*
1
, S Young
2
, A Gonzalez
3
, Y Zhou
4
, J Andersen
4
, A Valsamakis
5
, G Tsongalis
6
, B Yen-Lieberman
7
, R Pyles
8
, J Bremer
9
, and N Lurain
9
1
Emory Univ Sch of Med, Atlanta, GA, USA;
2
Tricore Reference Labs, Albuquerque, NM, USA;
3
Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Richmond, USA;
4
Harvard Sch of Publ Hlth, Boston, MA, USA;
5
Johns Hopkins Med Inst, Baltimore, MD, USA;
6
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med Ctr, Lebanon, NH, USA;
7
Cleveland Clin Fndn, OH, USA;
8
Univ of Texas Med Branch, Galveston, USA; and
9
Rush Univ Med Ctr, Chicago, IL, USA
738
Effect of Plasma Preparation Tubes vs Standard EDTA tubes on Viral "Blips" in Patients with Optimally Suppressed Plasma HIV-1 RNA
Robert Murphy*, B Berzins, A Leake, M Till, V Stosor, J Stanton, and F Palella
Northwestern Univ, Chicago, IL, USA
