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Aug 24	Optimization and robustness of blood tests for liver fibrosis and cirrhosis.

Aug 23	Rapid Oral Fluid Testing for HIV in Veterans With Mental Health Diagnoses and Residing in Community-Assisted Living Facilities.

Aug 21/22	Diagnosis of systemic toxoplasmosis with HIV infection using DNA extracted from paraffin-embedded tissue for polymerase chain reaction: a case report.

Aug 20	Pharmacogenetic testing and therapeutic drug monitoring are complementary tools for optimal individualization of drug therapy.

Aug 19	Performance of Commercial Herpes Simplex Virus Type-2 Antibody Tests Using Serum Samples From Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Aug 18	A less sensitive detector does not necessarily result in a less sensitive method: fast quantification of 13 antiretroviral analytes in plasma with liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry.

Aug 17	A Biochip System for Rapid and Accurate Identification of Mycobacteria Species from Isolates and Sputum.

Aug 16	One-tube loop-mediated isothermal amplification combined with restriction endonuclease digestion and ELISA for colorimetric detection of resistance to isoniazid, ethambutol and streptomycin in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates.

Aug 14/15	Proteome-wide Anti-Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and Anti-HIV Antibody Profiling for Predicting and Monitoring the Response to HCV Therapy in HIV-Coinfected Patients.

Aug 13	Plasma Epstein-Barr viral load measurement as a diagnostic marker of lymphoma in HIV-infected patients.

Aug 12	Multicentric comparative analytical performance study for the molecular detection of low amounts of Toxoplasma gondii from simulated specimens

Aug 11	Evaluation of ELISA test characteristics and estimation of Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in Dutch sheep using mixture models.

Aug 10	Specific, Sensitive and Rapid Detection of Active Toxoplasmosis in Patients by Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Method in Blood Samples.

Aug 09	Controversies in the treatment of Burkitt lymphoma in AIDS.

Aug 07/08	Diagnostic contribution of the positron emission scanning with 18F-FDG for invasive fungal infections.

Aug 06	Development of a clinically relevant liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry assay for 13 drugs of abuse in urine, designed to meet the needs of the service users.

Aug 05	FULL-TEXT PDF ARTICLE Comparative field performance and adherence to test results of four malaria rapid diagnostic tests among febrile patients more than five years of age in Blantyre, Malawi.

Aug 04	Development and Application of a Broadly-Sensitive Dried Blood Spots-Based Genotyping Assay for Global Surveillance of HIV-1 Drug Resistance.

Aug 03	Clinical Evaluation of a Dried Blood Spot Assay for Atazanavir

Aug 02	Simultaneous determination of atorvastatin, amlodipine, ramipril and benazepril in human plasma by LC-MS/MS and its application to a human pharmacokinetic study.

July 31/Aug 01	Investigation of human haemotropic Mycoplasma infections using a novel generic haemoplasma qPCR assay on blood samples and blood smears.

July 30	Routine Opt-Out Rapid HIV Screening and Detection of HIV Infection in Emergency Department Patients.

July 29	Clinical utility of genotypic resistance tests in HIV-1 infected patients with low-level virological failure.

July 28	Diagnostic usefulness of enzyme-linked immunospot assay for interferon-gamma for tuberculosis in cancer patients.

July 27	Broad-spectrum drug screening of meconium by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry and time-of-flight mass spectrometry

July 26	FULL-TEXT ARTICLE Comparison of HIV-1 Genotypic Resistance Test Interpretation Systems in Predicting Virological Outcomes Over Time

July 24/25	Discrimination of infectious bacteriophage T4 virus by propidium monoazide real-time PCR.

July 23	Detecting impaired glucose tolerance or type 2 diabetes mellitus by means of an oral glucose tolerance test in HIV-infected patients.

July 22	Evaluation of a modified interferon-gamma release assay for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection in adult and paediatric populations that enables delayed processing.

July 21	FULL-TEXT ARTICLE Comparison of HIV-1 Genotypic Resistance Test Interpretation Systems in Predicting Virological Outcomes Over Time.

July 20	Molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases - a primer for general internists.

July 19	HIV transmission and high rates of late diagnoses among adults aged 50 years and over.

July 17/18	External quality assessment programmes for detection of HCV RNA, HIV RNA and HBV DNA in plasma: improved proficiency of the participants observed over a 2-year period.

July 16	ActiTest accuracy for the assessment of histological activity grades in patients with chronic hepatitis C, an overview using Obuchowski measure.

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