Lumpfish are used routinely as cleaner fish to delouse farmed Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) and often translocated globally. In September 2021, an aquaculture production business in Dorset, England experienced considerable mortalities consignments of lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus imported from Norway. Following suspicion infection with virus (CLuV) by a veterinarian, commercial testing provided...

PURPOSE We present the largest study of both peripheral blood and lymph node samples examining the utility of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for established molecular markers as a diagnostic tool in the molecular staging of prostate cancer patients undergoing radical prostatectomy. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Peripheral blood from 358 patients was obtained before radical pro...

BACKGROUND The use of RT-PCR for diagnosis of group A rotaviruses is increasing, but up to 14% of healthy individuals may be positive by RT-PCR. If RT-PCR is not well correlated with disease, rotavirus A may not always be the cause of illness in RT-PCR positive patients with infectious intestinal disease (IID). OBJECTIVES To describe the differences in faecal viral load between ELISA positive...

The single-cell RNA-seq allows exploring the transcriptome for one cell at a time. By doing so, cellular regulation is pictured. One limitation dropout events phenomenon, where gene observed low or moderate expression level in but not detected another. Dropouts obscure legitimate biological heterogeneity leading to description of small fraction meaningful relations. We used stochastic approach ...

Objective: To establish the accuracy of computed tomography(CT) chest in diagnosis COVID-19 pneumonia by taking reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR) as a reference standard and to analyze discordant CT RT-PCR results.Materials Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study patients presented tertiary health care hospital Punjab, Pakistan for examination with suspicion from Ap...

The present study was carried out to detect the circulating Newcastle disease virus (NDV) from various field outbreaks in Assam during 2018-2021. Nine hundred ninety-two clinical and post mortem samples were collected backyard commercial poultry subjected molecular detection by Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR). NDV could be detected 445 (n=757, 58.78%) tissue 53 (n=235, ...

Laboratory diagnosis of human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) infections has traditionally been performed by virus isolation in cell culture and the direct fluorescent-antibody assay (DFA). Reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) is now recognized as a sensitive and specific alternative for detection of hRSV in respiratory samples. Using the LightCycler instrument, we developed a rapid RT-PCR ass...

A multiplex reverse transcription-PCR-enzyme hybridization assay (RT-PCR-EHA; Hexaplex; Prodesse Inc., Waukesha, Wis.) was used for the simultaneous detection of human parainfluenza virus types 1, 2, and 3, influenza virus types A and B, and respiratory syncytial virus types A and B. One hundred forty-three respiratory specimens from 126 patients were analyzed by RT-PCR-EHA, and the results wer...