Abstract
A nonfluorescent low-cost, low-density oligonucleotide array was designed for detecting the whole coronavirus genus after reverse transcription (RT)-PCR. The limit of detection was 15.7 copies/reaction. The clinical detection limit in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome was 100 copies/sample. In 39 children suffering from coronavirus 229E, NL63, OC43, or HKU1, the sensitivity was equal to that of individual real-time RT-PCRs.
Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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Pages (from-to) | 1049-1052 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of Clinical Microbiology |
Volume | 45 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |