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Establishment of Micro Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction and Real-Time Fluorescence Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Technologies for Detecting Zika Virus

Yuan Hui
ORCID logo ,
Zhiming Wu
,
Zhiran Qin
,
Li Zhu
,
Junhe Liang
,
Xujuan Li
,
Hanmin Fu
,
Shiyu Feng
,
Weiwei Xiao
,
Qinghua Wu
,
Bao Zhang
* ,
Wei Zhao
*
Version 1 : Received: 19 January 2018 / Approved: 24 January 2018 / Online: 24 January 2018 (04:21:18 CET)

How to cite: Hui, Y.; Wu, Z.; Qin, Z.; Zhu, L.; Liang, J.; Li, X.; Fu, H.; Feng, S.; Xiao, W.; Wu, Q.; Zhang, B.; Zhao, W. Establishment of Micro Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction and Real-Time Fluorescence Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Technologies for Detecting Zika Virus. Preprints 2018, 2018010221. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201801.0221.v1 Hui, Y.; Wu, Z.; Qin, Z.; Zhu, L.; Liang, J.; Li, X.; Fu, H.; Feng, S.; Xiao, W.; Wu, Q.; Zhang, B.; Zhao, W. Establishment of Micro Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction and Real-Time Fluorescence Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Technologies for Detecting Zika Virus. Preprints 2018, 2018010221. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201801.0221.v1

Abstract

Establishment of diagnostic methods with low detection limits plays a critical role in the maintenance of early diagnosis, prevention of serious neurological complications, and control of the spread of ZIKA. In this study, we established the micro-droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) and real-time fluorescent quantification PCR (qPCR) protocols for the detection of Zika virus based on the NS5 gene. For the Zika standard plasmid, the standard curve of R2 was 0.999, and the amplification efficiency was 92.203%, as determined by qPCR. Both ddPCR and qPCR were positive for cell culture of Zika nucleic acid.The minimum detection limit of ddPCR is 1–2 times lower than qPCR. Moreover, all tests of Dengue virus (1–4 serotypes) were negative in cell culture. Overall, these results suggested than ddPCR may have a lower limit of detection than qPCR.

Keywords

Zika virus; nucleic acid detection; micro-droplet digital polymerase chain reaction; real-time fluorescence quantitative polymerase chain reaction

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Virology

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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