Seong-Ho Kang, Eun Hee Lee, Geon Park, Sook Jin Jang, Dae Soo Moon
This study was designed to compare two automated systems and one manual system for hepatitis B virus (HBV) nucleic acid extraction. The two automated systems were the MagNA Pure 96 system (Roche Applied Science, Manheim, Germany) and the Chemagic system (Chemagen, Baesweiler, Germany), and the manual system was the QIAamp system (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). Sixty-eight samples that were within the detection range of the Cobas Ampliprep/Cobas TaqMan (CAP/CTM) platform (Roche Molecular Systems, Manheim, Germany) were selected...
2012: Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science