Automated, simple, and efficient influenza RNA extraction from clinical respiratory swabs using TruTip and epMotion

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
6121239	Journal of Clinical Virology	2013	6 Pages	PDF

Abstract

The automated TruTip/epMotion protocol is a simple and rapid extraction method that reproducibly purifies influenza RNA from respiratory swabs, with comparable efficacy and efficiency to both the easyMAG and QIAcube instruments.

Keywords

CDC RT-PCR EPM ABI NPs Influenza Automated extraction RNA standard deviation Nasopharyngeal swab Applied Biosystems coefficients of variation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction

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Life Sciences Immunology and Microbiology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

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Automated, simple, and efficient influenza RNA extraction from clinical respiratory swabs using TruTip and epMotion

Authors

Sara B. Griesemer, Rebecca Holmberg, Christopher G. Cooney, Nitu Thakore, Alissa Gindlesperger, Christopher Knickerbocker, Darrell P. Chandler, Kirsten St. George,