Table 4.

Repeatability of the Cq values at the LOD for all Listeria SYBR®Green qPCR assays. The results are based on 36 repetitions with genomic targets as DNA template

	Repeatability calculation on C q values at the LOD
	L. monocytogenes 1/2a (ATCC 51772)		L. monocytogenes 4b (ATCC 51777)		Listeria ivanovii (LMG 11388)
	RSDr (%)	r	RSDr (%)	r	RSDr (%)	r
iap-50-deg	4.9	4.8	na	na	2	1.9
prs-2-deg	2.4	2.2	na	na	2.3	2.1
hlyA-177	3.8	3.6	4.1	3.8	na	na
hlyA-146-deg-tronc	1.6	1.5	2.9	2.8	na	na

na not applicable, LOD limit of detection