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Session 151  Poster Abstracts
Diagnosis and Monitoring Using Dried Specimens
Wednesday, 1-4 pm
Room: Hall B
      921 Validation and Quality Assurance of the Infant Diagnostic PCR Test Using a Second Spot from the Same Dried Blood Spot Sample in Nigeria
Chin-Yih Ou*1, O Bolu1, K Bond2, R Audu1, A Abimiku3, K Diallo1, L Lu1, T Jelpe2, M Okoye4, A Abubakar2, and Federal Ministry of Health: Dr. E Ngige and Dr. Akinsete; Dr. John Vertifeuhille: CDC,Abuja, Nigeria
1CDC, Atlanta, GA, US; 2CDC Nigeria, Abuja; 3Inst of Human Virology, Jos, Nigeria; and 4USAID, Abuja, Nigeria
      922 A Low-cost Real-time PCR Assay for HIV-1 Diagnosis and Quantification Using Dried Blood Spots
S Trzmielina1, Nishaki Mehta*1, M Eliot2, B Nonyane2, A Foulkes2, J Sullivan1, K Luzuriaga1, and M Somasundaran1
1Univ of Massachusetts Med Sch, Worcester, US and 2Univ of Massachusetts Sch of Publ Hlth and Hlth Sci, Amherst, US
      923 Qualitative Analysis of Dried Blood Spots for the Diagnosis of Infants and Detection of Acute Infection from Pooled Samples
R Kerr, G Player, S Fiscus, and Julie Nelson*
Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US
      924 HIV-1 DNA Yield from Dried Blood Spots Is Diminished after Storage at 37oC Compared to -20oC
Caroline Mitchell and IMPAACT Dried Blood Spot Working Group
Univ of Washington, Seattle, US
      925 Validation of the NucliSens EasyQ Assay on Dried Fluid Spots for Monitoring of HIV-1 Infection in South Africa
Mohammed Abdo*1, G Sherman2, and W Stevens3
1Wits Pediatric HIV Clin, Johannesburg, South Africa; 2Univ of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and 3Univ of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
      926 Correlation between HIV-1 Viral Load Quantification Measured in Dried Blood Spots and Plasma Using 2 Commercial Assays
Carolina Garrido*, N Zahonero, V Soriano, and C de Mendoza
Hosp Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
      927 Efficient HIV-1 Drug Resistance Genotyping from Dried Blood Spots Stored for 1 year at 4ºC
A Youngpairoj1, S Masciotra1, C Garrido2, N Zahonero2, C de Mendoza2, and Gerardo Garcia-Lerma*1
1CDC, Atlanta, GA, US and 2Hosp Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
      928 Dried Blood Spots and the Ultra-sensitive p24 Antigen Assay for the Diagnosis of Perinatal HIV Infection
Ada Cachafeiro*1, G Sherman2, A Sohn3, C Beck-Sague4, and S Fiscus1
1Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US; 2Univ of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; 3Univ of California, San Francisco, US; and 4Clinton Fndn HIV AIDS Initiative, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic