posted on 2021-09-23, 17:49authored byGila Lustig, Sandile Cele, Farina Karim, Anne Derache, Abigail Ngoepe, Khadija Khan, Bernadett I. Gosnell, Mahomed-Yunus S. Moosa, Ntombi Ntshuba, Suzaan Marais, Prakash M. Jeena, Katya Govender, John Adamson, Henrik Kløverpris, Ravindra K. Gupta, Rohen Harrichandparsad, Vinod B. Patel, Alex Sigal
A viral load assay was performed on the CSF escape samples. Samples were then added to a column with anti-CD26 bead bound antibodies for immuno-capture of virus expressing CD26. Captured virus was then eluted and viral load assay performed. Red dotted line represents limit of assay detection. GM: geometric mean of n = 10 participants for each condition. Geometric mean was 5874 HIV RNA copies/mL for total virus, and 1591 copies/mL for virus with CD26 surface expression.