Table
3. Characteristics
of Assays for Quantification of
Table
3. Plasma HIV-1 RNA
|
Assay
|
Range
(copies/mL)
|
Inter-assay variation
(log10 SD) |
| US RT-PCRa (HIV-1 Monitor
1.5) |
50 - 75,000 |
0.12 - 0.22 |
| bDNAb (Quantiplex 3.0) |
50 - 500,000 |
0.05 - 0.17 |
| NASBAc (NucliSens) |
80 - 8,000,000 |
0.038 - 0.261 |
| |
|
|
| a,
ultra-sensitive reverse transcriptase - PCR assay; b, branched DNA
assay; c, nucleic acid and sequence-based amplification. Data compiled
from Lin et al J Clin Microbiol. 1998;36:835-9; Erice et al J Clin
Microbiol. 2000;38:2837-45; and Murphy et al . J Clin Microbiol.
2000;38:4034-41. |
|