The Infectious Diseases BioBank at King's College London: archiving samples from patients infected with HIV to facilitate translational research

Rachel Williams; Christine Mant; John Cason

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The Infectious Diseases BioBank at King's College London: archiving samples from patients infected with HIV to facilitate translational research

Rachel Williams, Christine Mant, John Cason

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The King's College London (KCL) Infectious Diseases BioBank opened in 2007 and collects peripheral venous blood (PVB) from individuals infected with pathogens including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). PVBs are fractionated into plasmas, lymphocytes and DNA and are then frozen. All donations are from subjects who have given 'open consent' so samples can be used for virtually any type of biomedical research. The HIV component of the BioBank contains samples from over 400 donations from 138 HIV+ patients. Thus, the KCL Infectious Diseases BioBank--together with establishments such as the Spanish HIV BioBank--is likely to expedite translational research into this infection.

Original language	English
Article number	98
Journal	Retrovirology
Volume	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-6-98
Publication status	Published - 3 Nov 2009

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