development of an in-house taqman real time rt-pcr assay to quantify hepatitis c virus rna in serum and peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with chronic hepatitis c virus infection
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conclusions the quite sensitive in-house taqman real time rt-pcr assay was able to detect and quantify all four main hcv genotypes prevailing around all geographical regions of iran. results the lower limit detection of this in-house hcv real-time rt-pcr was determined as 100 rna copies/ml. inter- and intra-assay coefficient of variation (cv) of this in-house hcv real-time rt-pcr ranged from 0.9% to 1.8% and 1.76% to 3.94%, respectively. the viral load of the genotyped samples ranged from 2.0 × 106 ± 0.31 to 2.7 × 105 ± 0.46 copies/ml in serum samples and 5 × 102 ± 0.36 to 4.0 × 103 ± 0.51 copies/106 cells/ml of pbmcs. background viral load measurements are commonly used to monitor hcv infection in patients with chronic diseases or determining the number of hcv-genomes in serum samples of patients after sustained virological response. however, in some patients, hcv viral load in serum samples is too low to be detected by pcr, especially after treatment. objectives the aim of this study was to develop a highly specific, sensitive, and reproducible in-house quantitative pcr using specific primers and probe cited in highly conservative region of hcv genome that allows simultaneous detection of hcv genotypes 1 - 4. materials and methods in this study, three sets of primer pairs and a taqman probe for amplification and detection of selected region within 5’-non-coding (5’ncr) of four hcv genotypes were used. using plasmid containing 5’ncr region of hcv, standard curve, threshold, and threshold cycle (ct) values were determined. real-time and nested pcr were performed on hcv genotypes 1 - 4 extracted from plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmcs) samples collected from patients with chronic hcv infection.
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