HTLV-I proviral load in Argentinean subjects with indeterminate western blot patterns

2011 
Methodology A total of 87 indeterminate WB samples (HTLV blot 2.4 assayGenelabs Diagnostics-) were studied over a 10 year period referred from the Blood Bank at Garrahan Hospital (n=83) and from the Virology Unit at Muniz Hospital (n=4). HTLV-I and –II tax and pol proviral sequences were amplified by in-house nested PCR assays. HTLV-I pVL was estimated by a quantitative real-time PCR assay targeting the HTLV-I pol gene and the albumin gene as normalizer. The limit of detection of the assay was 2.6 log10 copies of HTLV-I/106 PBMCs (0.04% copies/100 PBMCs).
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