"Viral Load" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The quantity of measurable virus in a body fluid. Change in viral load, measured in plasma, is sometimes used as a SURROGATE MARKER in disease progression.
| Descriptor ID |
D019562
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.225.875.950 E05.200.875.950 G06.920.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Viral Load- Viral Load
- Load, Viral
- Viral Burden
- Burden, Viral
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Viral Load".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Viral Load" by people in this website by year, and whether "Viral Load" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2005 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2011 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2012 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2013 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2014 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2017 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2020 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 2021 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Viral Load" by people in Profiles.
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Analyzing Social Support from Facebook on Viral Suppression among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV: A Pilot Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Oct 12; 21(10).
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A multiplexed real-time PCR assay for simultaneous quantification of human immunodeficiency virus and Hepatitis B virus for low-and-middle- income countries. J Virol Methods. 2024 Dec; 330:115026.
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Favorable Antiviral Effect of Metformin on SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load in a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial of COVID-19. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Aug 16; 79(2):354-363.
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Human cytomegalovirus in breast milk is associated with milk composition and the infant gut microbiome and growth. Nat Commun. 2024 Jul 23; 15(1):6216.
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Mitigation of errors on an FDA-approved platform for cytomegalovirus viral load assay. J Clin Microbiol. 2024 Jul 16; 62(7):e0041624.
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Mpox in people with advanced HIV infection: a global case series. Lancet. 2023 03 18; 401(10380):939-949.
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Examining the Implementation of Conditional Financial Incentives Using the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) Framework to Improve HIV Outcomes among Persons Living with HIV (PLWH) in Louisiana. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 08 02; 19(15).
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Incorporating temporal distribution of population-level viral load enables real-time estimation of COVID-19 transmission. Nat Commun. 2022 03 03; 13(1):1155.
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A highly virulent variant of HIV-1 circulating in the Netherlands. Science. 2022 02 04; 375(6580):540-545.
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Aging-related cell type-specific pathophysiologic immune responses that exacerbate disease severity in aged COVID-19 patients. Aging Cell. 2022 02; 21(2):e13544.