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Published on: February 28, 2015
Single-virus-sensitive barcode qPCR mediated by the aggregation of gold nanoparticle probes
Yuanzhao Shen1, Chih-Tsung Yang2, Weiwei Li3
1College of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Comparative Medicine, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, The Ministry of Education of China, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China. zhou_xin@126.com.
Abstract:
Herein, we developed a gold nanoparticle (GNP)-mediated barcode qPCR strategy with a sensitivity for a single virus particle per reaction for the detection of influenza virus H3N2. The analysis of the results for pure virus and real virus samples show that GNP-mediated barcode qPCR is ∼16 times more sensitive than conventional qPCR, demonstrating the potential to reduce false negatives and improve early diagnosis of viral infections.

