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Table 3 The Ct values obtained by testing 1118 COVID-19 positive patients using the two kits

From: Comparison of the performance of two real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR kits for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid: a study based on large real clinical samples

 Cycle threshold

Maccura kit

Sansure kit

ORF1ab gene (n = 1080)

N gene (n = 1090)

E gene (n = 991)

ORF1ab gene (n = 1097)

N gene (n = 1118)

Median

29.70

28.82

29.88

31.00

28.85

First Quartile

25.28

23.92

25.56

26.79

24.20

Third Quartile

33.83

32.99

33.39

35.31

33.33

Minimum

11.67

9.46

13.05

12.90

9.86

Maximum

37.93

38.00

37.00

39.95

40.00

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