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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Vis Exp. 2022 Feb 11;(180):10.3791/63395. doi: 10.3791/63395

Table 3:

Touchdown RT-qPCR protocol.

Stage Temperature (°C) Duration Number of Cycles
Reverse Transcription 55 10 min 1
Initial Denaturation 95 1 min 1
Touchdown 95 10 sec 3
72 30 sec
95 10 sec 3
69 30 sec
95 10 sec 3
66 30 sec
Main Amplification 95 10 sec 40
65 30 sec

Thermocycling conditions for one-step RT-qPCR SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic assay.