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            <issn pub-type="epub">2046-1402</issn>
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                <publisher-loc>London, UK</publisher-loc>
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            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.12688/f1000research.28404.1</article-id>
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                <article-title>A low-cost in-house HIV integrase strand transfer inhibitor drug resistance test for resource-limited settings</article-title>
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                        <p>[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]</p>
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                    <name>
                        <surname>Onwong'a</surname>
                        <given-names>Vera M.</given-names>
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                    <name>
                        <surname>Gachogo</surname>
                        <given-names>Rachael W.</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Investigation</role>
                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Methodology</role>
                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Writing &#x2013; Review &amp; Editing</role>
                    <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7921-6351</uri>
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                <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Masika</surname>
                        <given-names>Moses M.</given-names>
                    </name>
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                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Writing &#x2013; Review &amp; Editing</role>
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                <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Jacobs</surname>
                        <given-names>Graeme B.</given-names>
                    </name>
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                    <role content-type="http://credit.niso.org/">Writing &#x2013; Review &amp; Editing</role>
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                    <name>
                        <surname>Onyambu</surname>
                        <given-names>Frank G.</given-names>
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                    <label>1</label>Molecular &amp; Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya</aff>
                <aff id="a2">
                    <label>2</label>Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya</aff>
                <aff id="a3">
                    <label>3</label>International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya</aff>
                <aff id="a4">
                    <label>4</label>Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa</aff>
                <aff id="a5">
                    <label>5</label>School of Health Sciences, Meru University of Science and Technology, Meru, Kenya</aff>
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                <corresp id="c1">
                    <label>a</label>
                    <email xlink:href="mailto:frank.onyambu@iscb.org">frank.onyambu@iscb.org</email>
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                <fn fn-type="conflict">
                    <p>No competing interests were disclosed.</p>
                </fn>
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            <pub-date pub-type="epub">
                <day>31</day>
                <month>3</month>
                <year>2021</year>
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                <year>2021</year>
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            <volume>10</volume>
            <elocation-id>260</elocation-id>
            <history>
                <date date-type="accepted">
                    <day>10</day>
                    <month>3</month>
                    <year>2021</year>
                </date>
            </history>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x00a9; 2021 Onwong'a VM et al.</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
                <license xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
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            <related-article elocation-id="10.12688/f1000research.52954.1" id="related-article-version-56290" journal-id="F1000Research" journal-id-type="pmc" related-article-type="companion" vol="10">
                <article-title>RETRACTED:&#x00a0;A low-cost in-house HIV integrase strand transfer inhibitor drug resistance test for resource-limited settings</article-title>
                <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.12688/f1000research.52954.1</pub-id>
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            <abstract>
                <p>X</p>
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                <kwd>HIV</kwd>
                <kwd>HIV Drug Resistance</kwd>
                <kwd>Drug Resistance Testing (DRT)</kwd>
                <kwd>Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors (INSTIs)</kwd>
                <kwd>Assay Validation</kwd>
                <kwd>Accuracy</kwd>
                <kwd>Precision</kwd>
                <kwd>Reproducibility</kwd>
                <kwd>Amplification</kwd>
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                    <funding-source>Interhealth Networks Africa</funding-source>
                    <award-id>INA-001</award-id>
                </award-group>
                <funding-statement>This work was supported by Interhealth Networks Africa scholarship INA-001 awarded to VMO. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent views of the funders.</funding-statement>
                <funding-statement>
                    <italic>The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.</italic>
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