TABLE 4.
Swab samples tested in the field (PIONEX exercise, Pionki, Poland)
| Sample no. | Type | Scenario | RPA resultsa |
qPCR resultsa |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA_5345 | adk | purA | ptsI | |||
| Control 1 | NTC | − | − | − | − | |
| Control 2 | Extraction | − | − | − | − | |
| Control 3 | B. anthracis 9602 | + | + | + | + | |
| 1 | Swab | 1 | − | + | − | + |
| 2 | Swab | 1 | − | + | − | − |
| 3b | Swab | 1 | − | − | − | − |
| 4b | Swab | 2 | − | − | − | − |
| 5 | Swab | 2 | − | + | − | + |
| 6 | Swab | 2 | − | + | − | + |
| 7 | Swab | 2 | − | + | − | + |
| 8 | Swab | 2 | − | + | − | + |
| 9 | Swab | 2 | − | + | − | + |
| 10 | Swab | 2 | − | + | − | + |
| 11 | Swab | 2 | − | + | − | + |
| 12 | Swab | 2 | − | + | − | + |
| 13 | Swab | 2 | − | + | − | + |
a
−, not detected; +, detected.
b
Extracted swab samples were positive when assessed using the 16S rRNA PCR.