Table 3.
PCR efficiency after manual and automated extraction
Target | Material |
% PCR efficiency |
|||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Manual | EZ1 | BS 15 | KF Duo | ||
SBV |
Blood |
99.6 |
97.0 |
86.1 |
101.2 |
Serum |
97.8 |
121.5 |
87.1 |
112.7 |
|
BVDV | Blood |
112.4 |
99.3 |
88.8 |
84.2 |
Serum | 95.0 | 98.2 | 92.8 | 110.8 |
10-fold dilution series of SBV- and BVDV-positive blood and serum samples which were extracted in duplicate; PCR efficiencies of the respective RNA extracts were calculated from the slope of the standard curves.