TY - JOUR AU - van Schalkwyk, Cari AU - Maritz, Jean AU - van Zyl, Gert U. AU - Preiser, Wolfgang AU - Welte, Alex PY - 2019 DA - 2019/02/11 TI - Pooled PCR testing of dried blood spots for infant HIV diagnosis is cost efficient and accurate JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 136 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Access to qualitative HIV PCRs for early infant diagnosis (EID) is restricted in resource-limited settings due to cost. We hypothesised that pooling of dried blood spots (DBS), defined as combining multiple patient samples in a single test with subsequent individual testing of positive pools, would be cost saving while retaining clinical accuracy compared to individual patient testing. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3767-z DO - 10.1186/s12879-019-3767-z ID - van Schalkwyk2019 ER -