📄 Performance of single-step gel-based reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) assays equivalent to that of real-time RT-PCR assays for detection of the severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus

Simple gel-based one-step reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) assays, used to investigate patients during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Singapore, were found to be as sensitive as commercial and in-house real-time RT-PCR assays. The detection limit was approximately 1 genome equivalent (GE) per 5 μl PCR mixture. One PFU of SARS coronavirus was estimated to be 258 ± 46 GE. Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology.

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