Table 3.
Method | L-SBA | Traditional CFU-Based SBA |
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Total time of execution | 7 h 1 | 1.5 working day 2 |
Data acquisition | 2 min/SBA plate | 2–3 h/SBA plate 2 |
Reproducibility | Higher operator independency | Lower operator independency |
Assay throughput | 1 operator/day: 132 individual sera in single (12 SBA plates total) | 1 operator/1.5 day: 12 individual sera in single (1 SBA plate 2) |
1 To execute one set of 12 SBA plates; 2 to execute one SBA plate, plating each reaction well in one full agar plate: one SBA plate corresponds to 96 agar plates. CFU = Colony Forming Unit.