Human immunodeficiency virus principles

CDC. Prevention and treatment of mberculosis among patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus Principles of therapy and revised recommendations. MMWR 1998 47 1-58. 

Sterilization, Disinfection and Cleaning of Medical Equipment Microbiology Advisory Committee (1993) Guidance on Decontamination fixMnttie Microbiology Advisory Committee to Department of Health Medical Devices Directorate. Part 1 Principles. London HMSO. van Bueren J., Salman H. Cookson B.D. (1995) The Efficacy of Thirteen Chemical Disinfectants against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Medical Devices Agency Evaluation Report. 

V. M. Bertram, M. P. Bailey, and B. F. Rocks, Multiple releasable fluorescein labels for immunoassay. The principle illustrated by an immunoassay for antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus, Ann. Clin. Biochem. 28, 487-491 (1991). 

The detection of HIV-related proteins is one of the most challenging tasks. This is especially true because AIDS should be diagnosed as early as possible to enable an early and effective therapy of this infection. Pavski and Le (57) used the aptamer strategy to detect reverse transcriptase (RT) of the type 1 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). A direct and specific ACE method was proposed using laser-induced fluorescence (ACE/LIF) as detection principle. Single-stranded DNA aptamers as probes fluorescently labeled were synthesized. The resulting aptamer is specific for HIV-1 RT, and it exhibited no cross-reactivity with RTs of the enhanced avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV), the Moloney murine leukemia virus (MMLV), or denatured HIV-1 RT. An affinity complex of RT 26-HIV-l RT was stable, with calibration curves linear up to 50 nM (6 /xg/mL) HIV-1 RT concentration. Both... 

Fauci, A.S. and Lane, H.C. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease aids and related disorders, in Harrison s Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed., Braunwald, E. et al., eds., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1791, 1998. 

F. Aboul-ela, J. Karn, and G. Varani, The structure of the human immunodeficiency virus type-1 TAR RNA reveals principles of RNA recognition by Tat protein, J. Mol Biol, 253 (1995) 313-332. 

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