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Clinical performance and accuracy of a qPCR-based SARS-CoV-2 mass-screening workflow for healthcare-worker surveillance using pooled self-sampled gargling solutions: a cross-sectional study

Introduction: The large number of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections necessitates general screening of employees. We evaluate the performance of a SARS-CoV-2 screening program in asymptomatic healthcare-workers (HCW), utilizing self-sampled gargling-solution and sample pooling for RT-qPCR. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional retrospective study to collect real-life data on the performance of a screening-workflow based on automated-pooling and high-throughput qPCR…

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Mitochondrial loci enable specific qPCR detection of the pathogen causing contemporary impatiens downy mildew epidemics

Impatiens downy mildew (IDM) illness is a main constraint on the manufacturing of Impatiens walleriana, a preferred and economically vital floriculture plant. IDM is attributable to the biotrophic oomycete Plasmopara destructor that emerged as a pathogen of I. walleriana within the 2000s. To allow P. destructor detection and quantification, a hydrolysis probe-based quantitative PCR diagnostic assay was developed based mostly on distinctive…

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Platinum chloride-based viability RT-qPCR for SARS-CoV-2 detection in complex samples

Isolation, contact tracing and restrictions on social motion are being globally carried out to stop and management onward unfold of SARS-CoV-2, though the an infection threat modelled on RNA detection by RT-qPCR stays biased as viral shedding and infectivity will not be discerned. Thus, we aimed to develop a speedy viability RT-qPCR process to deduce…

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Validation of the analytical performance of nine commercial RT-qPCR kits for SARS-CoV-2 detection using certified reference material

The continued coronavirus illness 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has turn into a public well being emergency. Though many reverse-transcription PCR (RT-PCR) assays have been developed, their efficiency, particularly sensitivity evaluation, has been insufficiently examined. On this examine, a preliminary comparability of the analytical sensitivity of 9 RT-qPCR kits from completely different producers was first performed utilizing…

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What’s the norm in normalization? A frightening note on the use of RT-qPCR in the livestock science

Reverse-Transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) offers a precious device to check gene expression with beautiful sensitivity. To retain its inferential energy, user-introduced technical variability have to be decreased and accounted for. Deciding on a set of stably expressed inside management genes (ICG), validated for every experimental situation/pattern set, is broadly accepted as a dependable approach to…

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Development of real-time RT-qPCR assays for the typing of two novel bluetongue virus genotypes derived from sheeppox vaccine

Beforehand, we reported the detection of two novel bluetongue virus (BTV) strains (SPvvvv/02 and SPvvvv/03), presumably representing new BTV genotypes, in a batch of sheeppox vaccine. We developed type-specific RT-qPCR assays (concentrating on genome section 2) for these two new BTV strains. The restrict of detection of each assays was 10 genome copies/μl and no…

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Identification and validation of reference genes for RT-qPCR analysis in fetal rat pancreas

The selection of reference gene is essential for quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain response (RT-qPCR) assay. To display screen and decide the appropriate reference genes in fetal rat pancreas, we chosen eight candidate reference genes (Gapdh, Actb, Rn18 s, B2m, Rpl13a, Tbp, Ywhaz and Ubc), and evaluated the fidelity of gene expression from fetal rat pancreases…

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An optimized stepwise algorithm combining rapid antigen and RT-qPCR for screening of COVID-19 patients

Background & intention: We investigated the mixture of speedy antigen detection (RAD) and RT-qPCR assays in a stepwise process to optimize the detection of COVID-19. Strategies: From August 2020 to November 2020, 43,399 sufferers had been screened in our laboratory for COVID-19 diagnostic by RT-qPCR utilizing nasopharyngeal swab. General, 4,691 of the 43,399 had been discovered to…

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maxRatio improves the detection of samples with abnormal amplification profiles on QIAgen’s artus HIV-1 qPCR assay

Background: Correct viral load (VL) willpower is paramount to find out the efficacy of anti-HIV-1 remedy. The standard methodology used, fit-point (FP), assumes an equal effectivity within the polymerase chain response (PCR) amongst samples which may not maintain for low-input templates. Another strategy, maxRatio, was launched to compensate for inhibition in PCR. Strategies: Herein, we assessed whether or…

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A New Specific and Sensitive RT-qPCR Method Based on Splinted 5′ Ligation for the Quantitative Detection of RNA Species Shorter than microRNAs

Not too long ago, we found a brand new household of unusually brief RNAs mapping to five.8S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and which we named dodecaRNAs (doRNAs), based on the variety of core nucleotides (12 nt) their members include. To verify these small RNA-sequencing (RNA-Seq) knowledge, validate the existence of the 2 overly ample doRNAs-the minimal…

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