Viral load in COVID-19 infection peaks later now than in the early days of the pandemic, driving implications for rapid testing, researchers say. A paper published in Clinical Infectious Diseases has ...

There are around fifteen drops in a milliliter of blood. The viral load of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individual could be anywhere from only a few copies to as many as 500,000 ...

At-home rapid COVID-19 tests can reveal more about viral load than a simple positive/negative result, according to experts. "By definition, the basic technology suggests that you somehow have to go ...

A single laboratory-based HIV viral load test used by U.S. clinicians who provide people with long-acting, injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) did not reliably detect ...

A milliliter of blood contains about 15 individual drops. For a person with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), each drop of blood could contain anywhere from fewer than 20 copies of the virus to more ...

Colorized transmission electron micrograph of multiple HIV-1 virus particles (green) budding from a cell projection from an H9 cell (burgundy). Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility ...

While using lab-based plasma sample methods provides the most sensitive viral load test results, such tests are not feasible in many parts of the world. However, the new findings support the greater ...

Increasing the volume, strengthening the quality, and proactively using data of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) load testing are pivotal to limiting the threat of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) ...

Hepatitis B viral load is the amount of hepatitis B virus (HBV) found in a person’s bloodstream. Hepatitis B is a viral infection that can pass from person to person through bodily fluids. It ...

Faith, 23, is on the verge of despair after being unable to check her HIV viral load for the second time this year. “Since they drew blood to test the viral load in January, the next time I was to be ...