Reports, Presentations and Meeting Abstracts

• A Multi-Site Comparison of Reproducibility and Recovery From the Standard and Ultrasensitive Roche AMPLICOR HIV-1 MONITOR ASSAYS was published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology in volume 39, No. 3 (March 2001).
• The Effects of Errors in the Sequence of Optical Densities from the Roche HIV-1 Monitor™ Assay on the Validity of Quantitative RNA Estimates was published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology in volume 39, No. 3 (March 2001).
• Rates of False Positive Results on Quantitative HIV RNA Assays is an Abstract that was submitted to the 8th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, and accepted as a poster (abstract # 021e). This work is currently being processed for submission to the Journal of Clinical Virology as a technical note.
• The Ratio of Two Successive Optical Densities from the Roche HIV-1 Monitor™ Test as a Measure of the Accuracy of Estimates of  HIV RNA Concentration was submitted to the Journal of Clinical Microbiology for Publication.
• A Simplified Culture For Generating Replication Competent Virus From HIV+ PBMCs From Patients with Undetectable HIV-1 Plasma Viral Loads was submitted to the Journal of Clinical Microbiology for Publication.
• A Revised Proficiency Testing Program for Quantitative HIV-1 RNA Assays is an Abstract that was submitted to the 41st ICAAC Meeting to be held in Chicago, IL, September 22-25, 2001.
• VQA Survey Results - 10/14/99 is a document that summarizes the results of a survey conducted for the purpose of documenting the current status of methods used for virology testing across ACTG and PACTG laboratories and laboratory participation in VQA Proficiency Programs.

RNA Studies

• Variations in Measurement of HIV RNA Viral Load is a presentation by Don Brambilla at the July 1999 ACTG Meeting.
• 180-Day Stability of Stored RNA Proficiency Panels is a report from the VQA Contract - 12/15/99.

Culture Reagent Comparison

• VQA Culture Reagent Comparison Panel: Lot 9 vs Lot 10
• VQA Culture Reagent Comparison Panel: Lot 10 vs Lot 11

Fetal Bovine Stream Lot Testing

• Comparison of Fetal Bovine Serum Lots Quantitative Culture
• Review of ACD vs EDTA Studies
  

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