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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 Elad2, M Sharp2, D Fishwild1, B O'Connell1, B Bredt2, and K Tyagarajan1
1Guava Tech, Inc, Hayward, CA, USA and 2Univ 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 Solomon1, M Janardhanan1, N Kumarasamy1, B Venkatakrishnan1, S Reddy1, A Liaquath1, A Cecelia1, G Kailasom1, T Panchacharam2, B Ramratnam3, K Mayer3, and T Flanigan3
1YRG CARE,Chennai, India; 2Univ of Madras, Chennai, India; and 3Brown Univ, Providence, RI, USA
      741

5-Site Evaluation of the Guava EasyCD4TM Assay for the Enumeration of Human CD4+ T Cells
S Josefowicz1, R Louzao2, L Lam3, T Ding4, M Bergeron4, L Henderson5, C Mulder5, K Tyagarajan6, L Buchner6, E Sinclair7, T Denny2, T Spira3, F Mandy4, A Landay5, and Barry Bredt*7
1Gladstone Inst of Virology and Immunology, Univ of California, San Francisco, USA; 2Univ of Med and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, USA; 3CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA; 4Natl Lab for HIV, Ottawa, Canada; 5Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke’s Med Ctr, Chicago, IL, USA; 6Guava Tech, Inc, Hayward, CA, USA; and 7Univ of California, San Francisco, USA
      742

PointCare CD4 Testing: The New Kid on the Block
Lesley Scott*1, D Kirkpatrick2, P Hansen2, D Glencross3,4, and W Stevens3,4
1Univ of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; 2PointCare Tech, Marlborough, MA, USA; 3Univ of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and 4Natl Hlth Lab Svcs, Univ of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa