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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2009 Nov 27;23(18):2459–2466. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e328331f702

Table 2.

Classification of virologic failure comparing plasma HIV-1 RNA results with DBS HIV-1 RNA results at the threshold of ≥400 copies/mL (panel a) and ≥5,000 copies/mL (panel b), Tanzania 2008-9

a plasma b plasma
≥400 <400 total ≥5,000 <5,000 total


≥400 81 7 88 ≥5,000 74 2 76
DBS RNA <400 1 48 49 DBS RNA <5,000 0 61 61
total 82 55 137 total 74 63 137
SN 0.99 (0.93, 1.00), SP 0.87 (0.76, 0.94)
PPV 0.92, NPV 0.98
SN 1.00 (0.95, 1.00), SP 0.97 (0.89, 0.99)
PPV 0.97, NPV 1.00