Table 3.
Median viral load values and intraquartile ranges
| Log10 nominal concn (IU/ml) | Median (Q1, Q3) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| RealTime HBV | AmpliPrep TaqMan HBV | HighPure TaqMan HBV | artus HBV TM ASR | |
| 1.0 | 1.18 (1.10, 1.34) | 0.85 (0.78, 1.00) | —a | 0.65 (0.39, 0.90) |
| 1.5 | 1.57 (1.52, 1.73) | 1.54 (1.40, 1.74) | 1.26 (1.11, 1.33) | 1.11 (0.90, 1.34) |
| 2.0 | 2.02 (1.96, 2.13) | 2.20 (2.11, 2.24) | 1.89 (1.82, 1.95) | 1.83 (1.55, 1.98) |
| 2.5 | 2.44 (2.40, 2.49) | 2.73 (2.67, 2.78) | 2.42 (2.38, 2.45) | 2.25 (2.11, 2.35) |
| 3.0 | 2.89 (2.80, 2.93) | 3.34 (3.23, 3.40) | 3.00 (2.96, 3.03) | 2.78 (2.69, 2.82) |
| 4.0 | 3.85 (3.84, 3.90) | 4.30 (4.24, 4.38) | 4.08 (4.03, 4.11) | 3.79 (3.64, 3.85) |
| 5.0 | 4.87 (4.83, 4.92) | 5.18 (5.12, 5.22) | 4.92 (4.85, 4.95) | 4.78 (4.69, 4.88) |
| 6.0 | 5.91 (5.86, 5.94) | 6.14 (6.10, 6.17) | 5.85 (5.84, 5.87) | 5.86 (5.71, 5.92) |
| 7.0 | 6.93 (6.89, 6.96) | 7.32 (7.26, 7.37) | 6.98 (6.94, 7.02) | 6.90 (6.77, 6.96) |
| 7.7 | 7.66 (7.61, 7.69) | —b | 7.86 (7.80, 7.91) | 7.52 (7.35, 7.59) |
a
Nineteen of 28 samples reported as “detected, <6 IU/ml.”
b
All 20 samples reported as >8.04 log10 IU/ml (110,000,000 copies/ml).