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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2023 Oct 28;908:167966. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167966

Table 1.

Performance characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR, HAdV 40/41 and Bacteroides HF183 qPCR assays.

Assays qPCR/RT-qPCR performance characteristics
Efficiency (E) (%) Linearity (r2) Slope Y-intercept
SARS-CoV-2 93.4 0.994 −3.490 40.50
HAdV 40/41 96.0 1.000 −3.411 39.31
Bacteroides HF183 90.1 0.999 −3.586 42.97

Efficiency: −1 + 10(−1/slope).