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ArticleThe Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD2008

Comparison of automated nucleic acid extraction methods with manual extraction.

Nicola Dundas, N Kristine Leos, Midori Mitui, Paula Revell, Beverly Barton Rogers

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Article in The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 93 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nicola DundasDepartment of Pathology, Children's Medical Center, 1935 Motor Street, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.
N Kristine Leos
Midori Mitui
Paula Revell
Beverly Barton Rogers
Children's Medical Center · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Automated nucleic acid extractors can improve workflow and decrease variability in the clinical laboratory. We evaluated Qiagen EZ1 (Valencia, CA) and bioMérieux (Durham, NC) easyMAG extractors compared with Qiagen manual extraction using targets and matrices commonly available in the clinical laboratory. Pooled samples were spiked with various organisms, serially diluted, and extracted in duplicate. The organisms/matrices were Bordetella pertussis/bronchoalveolar lavage, herpes simplex virus II/cerebrospinal fluid, coxsackievirus A9/cerebrospinal fluid, BK virus/plasma, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae/endotracheal tube samples. Extracts were amplified in duplicate using real-time PCR assays, and amplification of the target at a cycle threshold of 35 using the manual method was used for comparison. Amplification efficiency of nucleic acids extracted by automated methods was similar to that by the manual method except for a loss of efficiency for M. pneumoniae in endotracheal tube samples. The EZ1 viral kit 2.0 gave better results for coxsackievirus A9 than the EZ1 viral kit version 1.0. At the lowest limit of detection (past a cycle threshold of 35), the easyMAG was more likely to produce amplifiable nucleic acid than were either the EZ1 or manual extraction. Operational complexity, defined as the number of manipulations required to obtain an extracted sample, was the lowest for the easyMAG. The easyMAG was the most expensive of the methods, followed by the EZ1 kit and manual extraction.

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Bordetella pertussisEnterovirus B, HumanMycoplasma pneumoniaeNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesNucleic AcidsPolymerase Chain ReactionReproducibility of ResultsSimplexvirusNucleic Acids

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PMID18556770
PMCPMC2438199
OpenAlexW2090070751

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