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Pooled PCR testing of dried blood spots for infant HIV diagnosis is cost efficient and accurate

Van Schalkwyk, Cari; Maritz, Jean; Van Zyl, Gert U.; Preiser, Wolfgang; Welte, Alex (BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2019)

Background: Access to qualitative HIV PCRs for early infant diagnosis (EID) is restricted in resource-limited settings due to cost. We hypothesised that pooling of dried blood spots (DBS), defined as combining multiple ...