A Two-Step Lyssavirus Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Using Degenerate Primers with Superior Sensitivity to the Fluorescent Antigen Test
Figure 2
Kinetic profile of RABV infection in mice determined by generic lyssavirus qRT-PCR, FAT and virus titration. Mice were infected with TCID50 of RABV (CVS-11) by intranasal inoculation and sacrificed 0 to 10 days later. The brain was collected for analysis. The course of (a) viral RNA by generic lyssavirus qRT-PCR, (b) load of viral antigen (FAT), (c) infectious virus (RTCIT), and (d) correlation of Cq values between the generic lyssavirus and RABV-specific qRT-PCR are presented. The correlation between the Cq values obtained by both qRT-PCR methods was excellent (Pearson’s correlation coefficient , ).
