Viral load is the quantity of virus in a given amount of patient’s blood.
Synonyms
Virus load
Detailed description
This factor is mainly used to control the therapeutic process of infections with HIV, cytomegaly viruses, hepatitis A viruses and hepatitis B viruses. A high viral load correlates with a severe infection or a poor prognosis, respectively.
The Max von Pettenkofer Institute of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) has been appointed German National Reference Centre for Retroviruses. With this, it assumes central networking tasks
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