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Session 119  Poster Abstracts
Diagnostics Quantification of HIV RNA in Resource-Limited Settings
Monday, 1 - 4 pm
Poster Hall
      672 Comparison of the Roche Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor Assay and the Roche COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 Assay for the Measurement of HIV in EDTA- and PPT-preserved Plasma Samples in South Africa
Zinhle Makatini*1, Z Hu2, D Follmann2, H Highbarger3, N Poole4, J Trusler4, P Sangweni5, J Metcalf2, H Lane2, and R Dewar3
1Univ of Limpopo, Pretoria, South Africa; 2NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, US; 3SAIC-Frederick, MD, US; 4BARC SA Pty Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa; and 5Project Phidisa, 1 Military Hosp, Pretoria, South Africa
      673 Non-NAT-based Virological Marker as a Potential Alternative to Nat-based Plasma Viral Load for Monitoring ART in Resource-limited Settings
Syed Iqbal*1, P Balakrishnano1, S Solomon1, A Cecelia1, N Kumarasamy1, V Madhavan1, M Kg1, K Mayer2, and S Crowe3
1YRGCARE, Chennai, India; 2Brown Univ, The Miriam Hosp, Providence, RI, US; and 3The Macfarlane Burnet Inst for Med Res and Publ Hlth, Melbourne, Australia
      674

Evaluation of Filter Paper Transfer of Dried Whole Blood and Plasma Spots to Monitor the Viral Load of Africans Taking ART
Laura Waters*1, A Kambugu2, D Meya2, H Tibenderana2, L John1,2, L John1,2, M Nabankema2, T Quinn3, B Gazzard1, S Reynolds3, and M Nelson1
1St Stephen's AIDS Trust, Chelsea and Westminster Hosp, London, UK; 2Infectious Disease Inst, Makerere Univ, Kampala, Uganda; and 3NIAID, NIH and Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore, MD, US
      675

Rapid Nucleic Acid Detection of HIV Using LAMP and RT-LAMP
Michele Owen*, D Rudolph, K Curtis, and S McDougal
CDC, Atlanta, GA, US
      676

Quality Control Assessment of HIV-2 Viral Load Quantification Assays. Results from an International Collaboration on HIV-2 Infection
F Damond1, Antoine Bénard*2, and ACHIeV2E Study Group
1Hosp Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France and 2INSERM U593, Univ Victor Segalen, Ctr Hosp Univ Bordeaux, France