Buffer AVL Alone Does Not Inactivate Ebola Virus in a Representative Clinical Sample Type |
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Authors: | Sophie J Smither Simon A Weller Amanda Phelps Lin Eastaugh Sarah Ngugi Lyn M O'Brien Jackie Steward Steve G Lonsdale Mark S Lever |
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Institution: | CBR Division, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | Rapid inactivation of Ebola virus (EBOV) is crucial for high-throughput testing of clinical samples in low-resource, outbreak scenarios. The EBOV inactivation efficacy of Buffer AVL (Qiagen) was tested against marmoset serum (EBOV concentration of 1 × 108 50% tissue culture infective dose per milliliter TCID50 · ml−1]) and murine blood (EBOV concentration of 1 × 107 TCID50 · ml−1) at 4:1 vol/vol buffer/sample ratios. Posttreatment cell culture and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) analysis indicated that treatment with Buffer AVL did not inactivate EBOV in 67% of samples, indicating that Buffer AVL, which is designed for RNA extraction and not virus inactivation, cannot be guaranteed to inactivate EBOV in diagnostic samples. Murine blood samples treated with ethanol (4:1 vol/vol] ethanol/sample) or heat (60°C for 15 min) also showed no viral inactivation in 67% or 100% of samples, respectively. However, combined Buffer AVL and ethanol or Buffer AVL and heat treatments showed total viral inactivation in 100% of samples tested. The Buffer AVL plus ethanol and Buffer AVL plus heat treatments were also shown not to affect the extraction of PCR quality RNA from EBOV-spiked murine blood samples. |
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