There is increasing interest in using dried blood spot (DBS) cards to extend the reach of
global health and disease surveillance programs to hard-to-reach populations …

SUMMARY HIV diagnostics have played a central role in the remarkable progress in
identifying, staging, initiating, and monitoring infected individuals on life-saving antiretroviral …

Background The emergence and spread of high levels of HIV-1 drug resistance in resource-
limited settings where combination antiretroviral treatment has been scaled up could …

Background Dried blood spot (DBS) sampling is a simple, cost-effective, and minimally
invasive alternative to venipuncture for measuring exposure biomarkers in public health and …

Tropical infectious diseases diagnosis and surveillance are often hampered by difficulties of
sample collection and transportation. Filter paper potentially provides a useful medium to …

Background Dried blood spots (DBS) have been used as alternative specimens to plasma to
increase access to HIV viral load (VL) monitoring and early infant diagnosis (EID) in remote …

HIV self-testing is an emerging innovative approach that allows individuals who want to
know their HIV status to collect their own specimen, perform a test, and interpret the results …

Commercially available HIV-1 drug resistance (HIVDR) genotyping assays are expensive
and have limitations in detecting non-B subtypes and circulating recombinant forms that are …

Almost five decades after their first application in diagnostics, dried blood spot (DBS) cards
remain to be of key interest in many research areas and clinical applications. The …

Despite major advances in HIV testing, early detection of infection at the point of care (PoC)
remains a key challenge. Although rapid antibody PoC and laboratory-based nucleic acid …