ASSAY FOR DETECTING AND QUANTIFYING HIV-1

摘要

Compositions, methods and kits for detecting HIV-1 nucleic acids using nucleic acid amplification. Particularly described are oligonucleotides that are useful as hybridization probes and amplification primers for detecting very low levels of HIV-1 nucleic acids by real-time monitoring of amplicon production. The invented assays are characterized by high levels of precision in the quantitation of HIV-1 targets at low copy numbers, and by accurate detection of different HIV-1 subtypes, including M group and O group variants.