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. 2019 Dec 18;9:19398. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55741-3

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Design of the spiking study. (A) 100 mosquitoes were homogenised, centrifuged and the supernatant was subsampled five times, with a sixth subsample taken as a negative control. (B) The subsamples were spiked with differing dilutions of Ross River virus (RRV), a monopartite virus, and Umatilla virus (UMAV), a segmented virus. The 1:1 dilution represented the viral load of a single RRV-infected mosquito in a pool of 100. (C) Nucleic acid was extracted and split into three technical replicates. (D) Viral load was measured using metatranscriptomic sequencing, and reverse transcription droplet digital PCR (RT-ddPCR) and quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). Created with BioRender.com.