TABLE 2.

Reproducibility of the Abbott test using plasma samples

Nominal concn (log10 copies/ml)	No. of samples tested	Mean viral load (log10 copies/ml)	SD (log10 copies/ml)	% CVa
6.0	6	5.88	0.19	3.2
5.0	16	4.79	0.24	5.0
4.0	16	3.91	0.21	5.3
3.0	16	2.76	0.24	8.7
2.3b	19	1.93	0.45	23.3
2.0b	18	1.90	0.46	24.2

^aCV, coefficient of variation.

^bOnly positive samples were included.