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Table 3 Cycle thresholds (Ct) of collective Oral Fluid (cOF) according to the qualitative result of the serum of the litter for detection of PRRSV RNA using RT-qrtPCR (non-pooled analysis, p-value = 0.02)

From: Monitoring PRRSV-1 in suckling piglets in an endemic herd using reverse transcriptase quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction: comparison of the rate of detection in serum and oral fluid samples and evaluation of pooling

 

Ct of RT-qrtPCR on cOF

 

Minimum

1st Quartile

Median

Mean

3rd Quartile

Maximum

PRRSV RNA detection on serum

Negative

33.3

37.1

38.2

37.7

38.8

39.9

Positive

31.6

34.4

35.6

35.5

36.6

38.5