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Takehiro Kohno1, Sharad Mohan, Toshiyuki Goto, Chizuko Morita, Takashi Nakano, Wu Hong, Joseph Carlo E Sangco, Shinichi Morimatsu, Kouichi Sano.
Abstract
Improvement of the sensitivity of detection systems for human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) has been carried out. One approach to improve the sensitivity is purification and/or concentration of the virus from a specimen. In this study, a method for concentrating HIV-1 using polyethylene glycol (PEG) has been re-evaluated and the optimal protocol for concentrating the virus from low-titer specimens was determined. That is, to obtain a virus pellet, a mixture of equal volumes of a specimen and 20% PEG 20,000 solution in saline is incubated at 4 degrees C for 16 h and then centrifuged at 17860 x g in a microcentrifuge for 20 min. HIV-1 in the pellet could be detectable by HIV-1 p24 antigen capture assay for viral protein, reverse transcriptase (RT) assay for viral enzyme, reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay for viral RNA and a virus infectivity assay. Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science B.V.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID： 12393147 DOI： 10.1016/s0166-0934(02)00162-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol Methods ISSN： 0166-0934 Impact factor: 2.014