Table 3.
The effect of sonication treatment on BCoV recovery and SARS-CoV-2 detection.
| Sample ID | pH | Turbidity (NTU) | BCoV recovery |
SARS-CoV-2 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Without Sonication |
With Sonication |
Without Sonication |
With Sonication |
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| Avg Cq | Recovery (%) | Avg Cq | Recovery (%) | Avg Cq | Avg Cq | |||
| S31 | 7.5 | 46.5 | 33.7 | 3.2 | 29.8 | 50.4 | 36.2* | 35.0 |
| S32 | 7.5 | >1000 | 35.1 | 1.2 | ND | – | 35.2* | ND |
| S33 | 8 | 390 | 33.5 | 3.8 | 33.5 | 3.8 | ND | 34.9 |
| S34 | 7.5 | 338 | 35.1 | 1.3 | 34.5 | 1.8 | ND | 40.0 |
| S35 | 7.5 | >1000 | 35.2 | 1.1 | 32.6 | 7.1 | 35.5 | 37.5 |
| S36 | 8.5 | 38.2 | 34.2 | 2.3 | 30.0 | 59.8 | 34.7 | 32.3 |
| S37 | 8 | >1000 | 33.0 | 5.2 | 31.6 | 14.5 | 36.5 | 35.7 |
| S38 | 8 | 58.2 | 31.7 | 12.9 | 30.6 | 28.8 | 35.5 | 35.9 |
| S39 | 8 | 978 | ND | – | ND | – | ND | ND |