|
1
|
Disposable swabs
|
To collect pharyngeal swab samples.
|
36058285
|
View Related Publication
|
|
2
|
PBS (Phosphate Buffered Saline)
|
To suspend the swab samples after collection.
|
|
3
|
0.45-μm filter (Millipore)
|
To filter the supernatant to remove eukaryotic and bacterial cell size particles.
|
|
4
|
Turbo DNase (Ambion)
|
To remove unprotected nucleic acids.
|
|
5
|
Baseline-ZERO DNase (Epicentre)
|
To remove unprotected nucleic acids.
|
|
6
|
Benzonase (Novagen)
|
To remove unprotected nucleic acids.
|
|
7
|
RNase (Fermentas)
|
To remove unprotected nucleic acids.
|
|
8
|
QIAamp Viral RNA Mini Kit (QIAGEN)
|
To extract total nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) from the filtered samples.
|
|
9
|
Super-Script III (Invitrogen)
|
For reverse transcription of RNA into the first strand of cDNA.
|
|
10
|
Random hexamer primer
|
To amplify nucleic acids during reverse transcription.
|
|
11
|
Large (Klenow) fragment (NEB)
|
For second strand cDNA synthesis and conversion of ssDNA to dsDNA.
|
|
12
|
Nextera XT DNA Sample Preparation Kit (Illumina)
|
For constructing libraries for sequencing.
|
|
13
|
Primer sets (Supplementary Table 1)
|
For nested primer PCR to bridge gaps between contigs.
|
|
14
|
rTaq (TaKaRa)
|
For the PCR enzyme used in reactions.
|