Open AccessUltrasensitive Assessment of Residual Low-Level HIV Viremia in HAART-Treated Patients and Risk of Virological Failure
Author(s) -
Franco Maggiolo,
Annapaola Callegaro,
Giuliana Cologni,
Claudia Bernardini,
Daniela Velenti,
Giampietro Gregis,
Giampaolo Quinzan,
Laura Soavi,
Nathalie Iannotti,
Emanuele Malfatto,
Sebastiano Leone
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0b013e3182567a57
Subject(s) - viremia , liter , confidence interval , odds ratio , viral load , medicine , receiver operating characteristic , surrogate endpoint , immunology , virology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , gastroenterology
Low-level viremia (LLV) is measurable, with enhanced assays, in many subjects with HIV RNA levels <50 copies per milliliter. The clinical consequences of LLV are unknown.