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Table 3 Analytical sensitivity of the real-time RT-PCRs for H1av, H1hu, H3, N1 and N2 on ten-fold dilutions of RNA extracted from swIAVs of different subtypes

From: Molecular subtyping of European swine influenza viruses and scaling to high-throughput analysis

Virus strain

Virus stock dilution

M gene RT-qPCRa(Cq-value)

Real-time RT-PCRb for molecular subtyping (Cq-value)

Lineage

Name

H1av

H1hu

H1huΔ146–147

H3

N1

N2

H1avN1

A/Sw/Cotes d’Armor/0388/2009

10−1

12.52

16.10

no Cq

nt

no Cq

15.52

no Cq

10−2

16.09

19.52

no Cq

nt

no Cq

18.75

no Cq

10−3

20.16

22.77

no Cq

nt

no Cq

22.46

no Cq

10−4

23.83

25.85

no Cq

nt

no Cq

25.71

no Cq

10−5

27.03

28.86

no Cq

nt

no Cq

28.18

no Cq

10−6

29.79

32.32

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

10−7

33.36

36.26

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

10−8

38.59

no Cq

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

10−9

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

10−10

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

H1huN2

A/Sw/Scotland/410440/1994

10−1

13.47

no Cq

15.18

nt

no Cq

no Cq

16.90

10−2

17.15

no Cq

18.53

nt

no Cq

no Cq

19.92

10−3

20.43

no Cq

21.99

nt

no Cq

no Cq

23.54

10−4

23.79

no Cq

25.19

nt

no Cq

no Cq

26.60

10−5

27.25

no Cq

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

10−6

30.11

no Cq

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

10−7

33.05

no Cq

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

10−8

37.48

no Cq

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

10−9

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

10−10

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

H1huN2Δ146–147

A/Sw/France/22–130212/2013

10−1

10.98

nt

11.88

12.68

nt

no Cq

11.48

10−2

14.67

nt

15.26

16.10

nt

no Cq

14.38

10−3

17.82

nt

18.66

20.07

nt

no Cq

17.78

10−4

21.3

nt

21.77

22.95

nt

no Cq

20.92

10−5

25.64

nt

25.03

26.53

nt

no Cq

24.54

10−6

28.06

nt

no Cq

29.83

nt

no Cq

33.03*

10−7

31.54

nt

no Cq

33.36

nt

no Cq

no Cq

10−8

35.16

nt

no Cq

37.03

nt

no Cq

no Cq

10−9

no Cq

nt

no Cq

39.63

nt

no Cq

no Cq

10−10

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

H3N2

A/Sw/Flandres/1/1998

10−1

13.13

no Cq

no Cq

nt

17.045

no Cq

16.865

10−2

16.7

no Cq

no Cq

nt

19.88

no Cq

19.725

10−3

20.21

no Cq

no Cq

nt

23.55

no Cq

23.275

10−4

23.57

no Cq

no Cq

nt

27.075

no Cq

26.67*

10−5

26.9

no Cq

no Cq

nt

30.235

no Cq

no Cq

10−6

30.07

no Cq

no Cq

nt

33.53

no Cq

no Cq

10−7

32.7

no Cq

no Cq

nt

36.335

no Cq

no Cq

10−8

37.04

no Cq

no Cq

nt

37.86

no Cq

no Cq

10−9

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

nt

39.99

no Cq

no Cq

10−10

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

nt

no Cq

no Cq

no Cq

  1. Cq quantification cycle, nt not tested. M gene RT-qPCRs were run on one replicate whereas molecular subtyping RT-qPCRs were run on duplicates (Thermocycler MxPro – Mx3005P). Thus, Cq-values for molecular subtyping RT-qPCRs are mean Cq-values between duplicates, except numbers indicated in italics with an asterisk (*). Cq-values indicated in bold represent detection limits. aCommercial kits [21]; bHA RT-qPCRs were run as simplex assays; N1 and N2 RT-qPCRs were run in duplex