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DETECTION METHODOLOGIES

[128P] IMMUNOPHENOTYPING ON WHEELS
F Mandy¹, Z Solajic¹, T Ding¹, M Bergeron¹, H Shapiro^2
1National HIV Immunology Laboratory, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; ²West Newton, Maryland

[129P] DESIGN OF NOVEL, SENSITIVE AND SPECIFIC HIV NESTED PRIMERS FOR POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION OF LYMPHOCYTE DNA
Suzie Ramdahin, Keith R Fowke, Stephen Wayne, Jared Bullard, Frank Plummer, Joanne Embree Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

[130P] AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD OTHER THAN WESTERN BLOT TO CONFIRM THE HIV ANTIBODY SCREEN POSITIVE SPECIMENS
Magdy R Dawood^1,2, Gerry Smart^1
1Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba; ²Medical Microbiology Department, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

[131P] QUANTITATION OF HPV-16 DNA IN HIV-INFECTED WOMEN USING A REAL-TIME PCR ASSAY
J Lefevre¹, C Hankins¹, F Coutlée^2
1The Canadian Women’s HIV Study Group; ²Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal University, and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

[132P] A PROGNOSTIC TEST FOR HIV INFECTION BASED UPON T CELL RECEPTOR EXCISION CIRCLES (TREC) AND HIV-1 2-LTR CIRCLES
Arshud M Dar^1,2, Promil Bhutani¹, Aisha M Dar¹, J Richard M Smith³, Edward S Rector⁴, Beni M Sahai^1,5
1Cadham Provincial Laboratory; ²Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology; ³Village Clinic; ⁴Flow Cytometry Laboratory; ⁵Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

[133P] INTERFERON ALPHA PRODUCTION DURING PRIMARY HIV INFECTION CORRELATES WITH IMPAIRED THYMOCYTE PROLIFERATION
ML Dion¹, M Sylvestre¹, JF Poulin¹, R Bordi1, R Corsini¹, M Lainesse¹, RP Sekaly¹, R Cheynier^1
1Laboratoire d’Immunologie, Centre de Recherche du CHUM, Pav. Hôtel-Dieu, Montréal, Québec