Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2020, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (12): 3187-3192.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2020.12.028

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A Droplet Digital PCR Method for Detection of Newcastle Disease Virus

MEI Li1, WANG Yingchao1, WU Di1, LI Yue2, SONG Yanjun1, WEI Haitao1, WANG Lin1, GAO Xiaolong1*, FENG Xiaoyu1*   

  1. 1. Beijing Animal Disease Control Center, Beijing 102629, China;
    2. Beijing Veterinary Drug Control Institution, Beijing 102629, China
  • Received:2020-05-28 Online:2020-12-25 Published:2020-12-23

Abstract: This experiment was conducted to establish a droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method for the detection of Newcastle disease virus (NDV). A ddPCR method was developed, which the primers and probes were designed based on the conservative regions of F gene of NDV. The concentration of primer and probe, the annealing temperature in ddPCR reaction were optimized. The sensitivity, specificity and reproducibility of ddPCR method were evaluated. In results, the optimal primer concentration and the probe concentration were 900 and 250 nmol·L-1, the optimum annealing temperature was 55℃. The detection limit of ddPCR method was 1.8 copies·μL-1 with a good linear response, it had no cross reaction with other six viruses (include IBV), the coefficient of variation of sample repetition was 2.4%. All the results showed that NDV ddPCR was sensitive and specific, it was suitable for quantitative detection of clinical samples infected with NDV.

Key words: Newcastle disease virus, droplet digital PCR, detection method

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