Table 3.
Sensitivity of the detection tests performed onto the Light Cycler platform. For Smallpox virus, Monkey pox virus and Burkholderia species, native DNA was not available. For C. psittaci and Varicella-zoster virus titrated micro-organisms were not available.
| Plasmid | Microorganism | Number of molecules detected | |
| Plasmid | Native (strain) | ||
| CatA | Smallpox virus | 5 | NA |
| CatA | Y. pestis | 5 | 5 (Kim5) |
| CatA | B. anthracis | 5 | 5 (Sneath D455) |
| CatA | F. tularensis | 500 | 5 (URFTMUE1) |
| CatB | Brucella sp. | 50 | 50 (B. melitensis B115) |
| CatB | R. prowazeckii | 50 | 100 (Brein l) |
| CatB | R. rickettsii | 100 | 50 (VR 891) |
| CatB | B. mallei/pseudomallei | 50 | NA |
| CatB | C. burnetii | 5 | 100 (Nine Mile) |
| CatB | C. psitacci | 50 | NA |
| CatVEF | Smallpox virus | 5 | NA |
| CatVEF | Monkeypoxvirus | 5 | NA |
| CatVEF | Orthopoxvirus | 5 | 10 (ectromelia TC8) |
| CatVEF | Varicella-zoster virus | 5 | NA |
| CatVEF | Herpesvirus 1/2 | 5 | 10 (MA1) |
| CatVEF | R. akari | 5 | 50 (Kaplan) |