Automated extraction protocol for quantification of SARS-Coronavirus RNA in serum: an evaluation study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Analytical sensitivity and precision comparisons of the manual and automated methods.

	Sensitivity comparison			Precision comparison
SARS-CoV RNA Concentration (copies/mL)	10	10²	10³	10³			10⁵
				mean	S.D.	CV (%)	mean	S.D.	CV (%)
Automated	1/10^a	7/10	10/10	349	268	76.9	35052	17892	51
Manual	4/10	9/10	10/10	1539	697	45.3	83591	39606	47.4

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