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. 2020;151(2 & 3):251-254.
doi: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_671_20.

Development of in vitro transcribed RNA as positive control for laboratory diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 in India

Manohar Lal Choudhary  1 , Veena Vipat  1 , Sheetal Jadhav  1 , Atanu Basu  2 , Sarah Cherian  3 , Priya Abraham  4 , Varsha A Potdar  1
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Development of in vitro transcribed RNA as positive control for laboratory diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 in India

Manohar Lal Choudhary et al. Indian J Med Res. 2020.
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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Positive DNA amplification of envelope (E), RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), nucleocapsid (N) and open reading frame (ORF) 1b-nsp14 for in vitro transcribed preparation. Lane 1: E gene (550 bp), lane 2: RdRp gene (344 bp), lane 3: N gene (1254 bp) positive, lane 4: ORF (388 bp), lane 5: 100 bp DNA ladder.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
(A-E) Multicomponent amplification graph for 10-fold dilutions of in vitro transcribed RNA: (A) E gene, (B) RdRp gene probe 1, (C) RdRp gene probe 2, (D) ORF gene, (E) N gene. The X axis represents number of cycles and Y axis represents amount of fluorescence.
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