METHOD OF QUANTIFYING HIV-1 RNA-DNA HYDRID AND DIAGNOSIS KIT
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Abstract
A diagnostic kit for evaluating the progress of an HIV-1-related disease and/or the efficacy of an anti-HIV-1 treatment using the quantity of an HIV-1 RNA-DNA hybrid in a sample as an indicator, comprising: at least one primer pair consisting of a downstream primer having a sequence complementary to a portion of the nucleotide sequence of the constituent RNA of the HIV-1 RNA-DNA hybrid and an upstream primer having a sequence complementary to a portion of the nucleotide sequence of the constituent DNA of the HIV-1 RNA-DNA hybrid; and restriction enzyme by which double-stranded DNA containing the same nucleotide sequence as DNA extended by the primer pair can be cleaved at any specific site in the nucleotide sequence.
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- 5. A method for evaluating the progress of HIV infection and/or the efficacy of an antiretroviral therapy comprising determining the concentration of an HIV-1 RNA-DNA hybrid in a sample as an indicator.
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