Assessment of NS1 gene-specific real time quantitative TaqMan PCR for the detection of Human Bocavirus in respiratory samples.
Mol Cell Probes 2017;
34:53-55. [PMID:
28457983 DOI:
10.1016/j.mcp.2017.04.005]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Accepted: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Human Bocaviruses (HBoV) were associated with respiratory diseases. Here, we assessed a TaqMan®-based PCR for the detection of all four HBoV subtype infections with a sensitivity up to 15 copies/reaction. To evaluate this assay on clinical samples, 178 nasopharyngeal aspirate specimens from pediatric cases were analyzed and HBoV genome was detected in 13 out of 178 patients with a viral load range between 1.6 × 103 and 9.4 × 107 copies/ml. These results indicated that this method could be used as an alternative technique for the diagnosis of HBoV infection.
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