Specimen Requirements
Title
HIV-1 Genosure Archive
Specimen Requirement
Collect lavender EDTA/4.0 mL whole blood, ship on dry ice in the original collection tube.
Critical frozen.
Methodology
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and next generation DNA sequencing
Stability
Frozen: 30 days
Reference Range
By Report*
Turnaround
10-14 days
Clinical Use
Detects resistance of HIV-1 to protease, reverse transcriptase, and integrase inhibitors in cell-associated viral DNA.
This procedure should be used for patients with documented HIV-1 infection and undetectable viral load or low level viremia.
Test Code
GSARC