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Table 4 Cycle thresholds (Ct) of the serum of the litter according to the qualitative result of the collective oral fluid (cOF) (non-pooled PCR, p-value = 0.58)

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 serum

Minimum

1st Quartile

Median

Mean

3rd Quartile

Maximum

PRRSV RNA detection on cOF

Negative

26.8

34.4

34.6

34.6

37

40.3

Positive

22.9

29.9

33.6

33.1

36.8

41.8