Diagnosis of foot-and mouth disease by real time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction under field conditions in Brazil

Table 1 Positive and inconclusive results by real-time polymerase chain reaction and the corresponding virus isolation and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) results.*

* Origin of samples was Eldorado/Japorã, State of Minas Gerais. Ct (cycle threshold) corresponds to the number of cycles required for a given sample to reach the threshold above which it is considered positive. A sample was considered positive when the Ct value was lower than 40, and inconclusive when the Ct value was higher than 40. CPE = cytopathic effect; ND = not determined. Only samples that resulted in CPE were processed for indirect sandwich ELISA.

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