Journal
JOURNAL OF VIROLOGICAL METHODS
Volume 151, Issue 1, Pages 40-46Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2008.03.026
Keywords
quantitative RT-PCR; dengue; yellow fever
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Yellow fever-dengue chimeras (CYDs) are being developed currently as live tetravalent dengue vaccine candidates. Specific quantitative assays are needed to evaluate the viral load of each serotype in vaccine batches and biological samples. A quantitative real-time RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) system was developed comprising five one-step qRT-PCRs targeting the E/NS1 junction of each chimera, or the NS5 gene in the yellow fever backbone. Each assay was standardized using in vitro transcribed RNA qualified according to its size and purity, and precisely quantified. A non RNA-extracted virus sample was introduced as external quality control (EQC), as well as 2 extraction controls consisting of 2 doses, 40 and 4000 GEQ(genomic equivalents), of this EQC extracted in parallel to the samples. Between 6 and 10 GEQ/reaction were reproducibly measured with all assays and similar titers were obtained with the two methods when chimeric virus samples were quantified with the E/NS1 - or the NS5-specific assays. Reproducibility of RNA extraction was ensured by automation of the process (yield >= 50%), and infectious virus was isolated in >= 80% of PCR-positive sera from immune monkeys.
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