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cord-353246-q9qpec7t	Nijhuis, R. H. T.	Comparison of ePlex Respiratory Pathogen Panel with Laboratory-Developed Real-Time PCR Assays for Detection of Respiratory Pathogens	2017-05-23		.txt	text/plain	3431	147	47	The objective of this study was to compare the performance of the RP panel with those of laboratory-developed real-time PCR assays, using a variety of previously collected clinical respiratory specimens. In the current study, the performance of the syndromic RP panel was compared to those of laboratory-developed real-time PCR assays, using clinical specimens previously submitted for diagnosis of respiratory pathogens. The 323 positive clinical specimens contained a total of 464 respiratory pathogens as detected by laboratory-developed real-time PCR assays (Table 1) . Owing to the lack of clinical specimens containing MERS-CoV, dilutions of two different culture isolates were tested in this study, of which dilutions with C T values of Ͻ30 as shown by the laboratory-developed real-time PCR assay could be detected consistently. In conclusion, this study shows excellent performance of the GenMark ePlex RP panel in comparison to laboratory-developed real-time PCR assays for the detection of respiratory pathogens from multiple types of clinical specimens and EQA samples.	./cache/cord-353246-q9qpec7t.txt	./txt/cord-353246-q9qpec7t.txt