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