HIV viral load and flow cytometry: methods & perspectives?

Bjarne Moeller (bkm@biobase.dk)
Sat, 11 Nov 1995 16:42:13 +0100 (MET)

The clinicians at our center has confronted me with a few relatively
simple questions, which I am not able to answer and therefore has
forwarded to the List of Flow'ers:

We have been wondering if anybody has used flow cytometry to count the
number of infected cells in HIV-1 patients. Any communications of
correlation to molecular biology (ie. semiquantitative HIV-1 RNA-PCR)?

If so, is the infected fraction predictive of clinical outcome of HIV-1
infected patients?

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Bjarne K. Moeller, MD
Dept. of Clin. Immunology Voice: +45 8949 5304
University Hospital of Aarhus Fax: +45 8949 6007
Skejby Sygehus
DK-8200 Aarhus, Denmark E-mail: bkm@biobase.dk

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