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Methods Mol Med
; 17: 99-118, 1999.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21380662
ABSTRACT
The assessment of viral load in the blood, tissues, and bodily fluids of persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus is fundamental to defining the stage of disease (1-3), the effect of antiviral treatments to abate disease (4, 5), disease progression (6-8), and propensity for the transmission of disease (9,10) as well. Now accepted as a surrogate for all of these features of HIV-1 disease, specific guidelines have been adopted for the use of viral load measures in the clinical management of the disease (11).