Evaluation of Clinical and Immunological Markers for predicting Virological Failure in a HIV/AIDS treatment cohort in Busia, Kenya
Authors
Ferreyra, CeciliaYun, Oliver
Eisenberg, Nell
Alonso, Elena
Khamadi, Ashimosi S
Mwau, Matilu
Mugendi, Martha Kihara
Alvarez, Ana
Velilla, Elena
Flevaud, Laurence
Arnedo, Mireia
Dalmau, David
Roddy, Paul
Bernasconi, Andrea
Palma, Pedro Pablo
Affiliation
Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Center Barcelona Athens, Barcelona, Spain. cecilia.ferreyra@barcelona.msf.orgIssue Date
2012-11-21
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PloS OneAbstract
In resource-limited settings where viral load (VL) monitoring is scarce or unavailable, clinicians must use immunological and clinical criteria to define HIV virological treatment failure. This study examined the performance of World Health Organization (WHO) clinical and immunological failure criteria in predicting virological failure in HIV patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART).PubMed ID
23185450Language
enISSN
1932-6203ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1371/journal.pone.0049834