Research Article
No Evidence of Viral Transmission following Long-Term Implantation of Agarose Encapsulated Porcine Islets in Diabetic Dogs
Table 2
Microbiological screening performed at necropsy on retrieved islet macrobeads and study animal samples and tissues.
| | Test description | Testing facility | Methodology |
| | Sterility | Microtest Laboratories, Inc. | USP membrane filtration | | Mycoplasma | Microtest Laboratories, Inc. | Direct cultivation methods Cell culture methods | | Bacterial endotoxin | Microtest Laboratories, Inc. | Kinetic chromogenic | | Porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) | BioReliance | qRT-PCR | | Porcine circovirus types 1 and 2 (PCV) | BioReliance | qRT-PCR | | Porcine lymphotropic herpes virus type-1 (PLHV-1) | BioReliance | qRT-PCR | | Swine hepatitis E virus (sHepE) | BioReliance | qRT-PCR | | Porcine cytomegalovirus (PCMV) | BioReliance | qRT-PCR | | Swine encephalomyocarditis virus (sEMCV) | BioReliance | qRT-PCR |
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