Comparison of levels of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA in plasma as measured by the NucliSens nucleic acid sequence-based amplification and quantiplex branched-DNA assays
Cc. Ginocchio et al., Comparison of levels of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA in plasma as measured by the NucliSens nucleic acid sequence-based amplification and quantiplex branched-DNA assays, J CLIN MICR, 37(4), 1999, pp. 1210-1212
This study compared levels of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA in pl
asma as measured by the Quantiplex branched-DNA and NucliSens nucleic acid
sequence-based amplification assays. RNA was detectable in 118 of 184 sampl
es (64.13%) by the Quantiplex assay and in 171 of 184 samples (92.94%) by t
he NucliSens assay. Regression analysis indicated that a linear relationshi
p existed between the two sets of values (P < 0.0001), although the Quantip
lex and NucliSens values were significantly different (P < 0.001), with the
NucliSens values being approximately 0.323 log higher, Spearman correlatio
n analysis indicated that the overall changes in patient viral load pattern
s were highly correlative between the two assays: r = 0.912, P < 0.0001, Th
e lower limits of sensitivity were determined to be approximately 100 copie
s/ml and 1,200 to 1,400 copies/ml for the NucliSens and Quantiplex assays,
respectively.