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Table 2 Organisms used for the specificity panel

From: A cost effective real-time PCR for the detection of adenovirus from viral swabs

Name

Real-time PCR Result

 

Nucleic acid extraction

Homogenization and heat treatment

HAdV-A, type 31

+

+

HAdV-B, type 3

+

+

HAdV-B, type 7

+

+

HAdV-B, type 14

+

+

HAdV-B type 34

+

+

HAdV-C, type 1

+

+

HAdV-C, type 2

+

+

HAdV-C, type 6

+

+

HAdV-D, type 8

+

+

HAdV-D, type 10

+

+

HAdV-D, type 20

+

+

HAdV-D, type 26

+

+

HAdV-D, type 29

+

+

HAdV-E, type 4

+

+

HAdV-F, type 40

+

+

Influenza A (pandemic H1N1, seasonal H1N1 and seasonal H3N2)

-

-

Influenza B (Victoria and Yamagata lineages)

-

-

Parainfluenza virus (types 1 to 4)

-

-

Respiratory syncytial virus (types A and B)

-

-

Human coronaviruses (229E, OC43, NL63, and HKU1)

-

-

Human metapneumovirus

-

-

Rhinovirus (A, B or C)

-

-

Human bocavirus

-

-

Human herpesvirus (types 1–5, 6a, 6b, 7 and 8)

-

-

Streptococcus pneumoniae

-

-

Haemophilus influenzae

-

-

Moraxella catarrhalis

-

-

Legionella pneumophila

-

-

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

-

-

Staphylococcus aureus

-

-

Staphylococcus epidermidis

-

-

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

-

-

Escherichia coli

-

-

Neisseria gonorrhoeae

-

-

Chlamydia trachomatis

-

-

  1. *Virus and bacterial strains were obtained from the microbiology laboratory at CDHA (Halifax, NS) or the Provincial Laboratory for Public Health (Calgary, Alberta).