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 ...

Over the last 15 years, many African nations have made major strides towards enabling millions of HIV-positive people to access HIV antiretroviral therapy. This has helped to treat individual patients ...

For the last couple of years, the rapid at-home COVID tests that can identify an infection with a simple swab of the nose have been a mainstay of efforts to diagnose infection with the SARS-CoV-2 ...

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 cheaper laboratory test that helps guide anti-retroviral drug treatment for people with HIV/AIDS may be just as effective as a more sophisticated test, a group of international researchers has found ...

Researchers found point-of-care viral load (POC VL) tests have high sensitivity and specificity for detection of viral loads of at least 1000 copies/mL. A recent review in Cochrane Database of ...

Viral load refers to the amount of virus in an infected person’s blood. This is expressed as the number of viral particles in each milliliter of blood. Higher viral load can have different ...

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 ...