Home
Search Abstracts
Browse Sessions
Program Committee
Conference Webcasts
Contact Us
Session 126
Poster Abstracts
Simplifying CD4 Testing
Friday, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Hall A
739
Performance of Aged, Transfix-treated Blood in the Guava EasyCD4 and EasyCD8 Assays
Alemayehu Mergia*
1
, K Elad
2
, M Sharp
2
, D Fishwild
1
, B O'Connell
1
, B Bredt
2
, and K Tyagarajan
1
1
Guava Tech, Inc, Hayward, CA, USA and
2
Univ of California, San Francisco, USA
740
A Simple, Low-cost CD4 Assay for Monitoring HIV-infected Individuals in Resource-limited-Settings: An Evaluation of Guava EasyCD4 Assay
Balakrishnan Pachamuthu*
1
, S Solomon
1
, M Janardhanan
1
, N Kumarasamy
1
, B Venkatakrishnan
1
, S Reddy
1
, A Liaquath
1
, A Cecelia
1
, G Kailasom
1
, T Panchacharam
2
, B Ramratnam
3
, K Mayer
3
, and T Flanigan
3
1
YRG CARE,Chennai, India;
2
Univ of Madras, Chennai, India; and
3
Brown Univ, Providence, RI, USA
741
5-Site Evaluation of the Guava EasyCD4
TM
Assay for the Enumeration of Human CD4
+
T Cells
S Josefowicz
1
, R Louzao
2
, L Lam
3
, T Ding
4
, M Bergeron
4
, L Henderson
5
, C Mulder
5
, K Tyagarajan
6
, L Buchner
6
, E Sinclair
7
, T Denny
2
, T Spira
3
, F Mandy
4
, A Landay
5
, and Barry Bredt*
7
1
Gladstone Inst of Virology and Immunology, Univ of California, San Francisco, USA;
2
Univ of Med and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, USA;
3
CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA;
4
Natl Lab for HIV, Ottawa, Canada;
5
Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke’s Med Ctr, Chicago, IL, USA;
6
Guava Tech, Inc, Hayward, CA, USA; and
7
Univ of California, San Francisco, USA
742
PointCare CD4 Testing: The New Kid on the Block
Lesley Scott*
1
, D Kirkpatrick
2
, P Hansen
2
, D Glencross
3,4
, and W Stevens
3,4
1
Univ of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;
2
PointCare Tech, Marlborough, MA, USA;
3
Univ of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and
4
Natl Hlth Lab Svcs, Univ of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa