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Group A porcine rotavirus causes acute enteritis in piglets and severe economic losses, creating an urgent requirement for a convenient, sensitive, and specific diagnostic method for clinical surveillance.
Does a novel ddPCR assay improve the detection sensitivity of group A porcine rotavirus compared to standard qPCR in clinical samples?
Does a novel ddPCR assay improve the detection sensitivity of group A porcine rotavirus compared to standard qPCR in clinical samples?
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The newly developed ddPCR assay provides a highly sensitive and specific method for the detection of group A porcine rotavirus, outperforming traditional qPCR in detecting low-level viral nucleic acids.
Group A porcine rotavirus (PoRVA) is an important pathogen of acute enteritis in piglets, which has caused severe economic losses in the pig industry worldwide. A convenient, sensitive and specific diagnosis method is an urgent requirement for the surveillance of the PoRVA circulating in clinical samples. In this study, a novel and convenient droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) for the detection of PoRVA was developed using the conserved region of the VP6 gene. The detection limit of ddPCR was 1.81 ± 0.14 copies/rection, ~10 times greater sensitivity than TaqMan real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR). Both ddPCR and qPCR assays exhibited good linearity and repeatability, and the established ddPCR method was highly specific for PoRVA. The results of clinical sample testing showed that the positivity rate of ddPCR (5.6%) was higher than that of qPCR (4.4%). Therefore, the newly developed ddPCR assay could be widely used in clinical diagnosis of PoRVA infections.
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