title: Use of plastic vacutainer tubes for quantification of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in blood specimens.
abstract: Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 viral load results were compared for paired samples collected in plastic and glass Vacutainer tubes, using both standard (n = 60) and ultrasensitive (n = 66) assays. The results showed a strong correlation (P < 0.0001), and plastic tubes can be substituted for glass tubes.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Virology Laboratory, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. marie.landry@yale.edu
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Landry
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Garner
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ferguson
mesh_terms: D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D005898:Glass; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000821:virology*; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D010969:Plastics; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000097:blood*; D019562:Viral Load; D014766:Viremia
chemical_list: D010969:Plastics; D012367:RNA, Viral