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Evaluation of Filters for the Sampling and Quantification of RNA Phage Aerosols

2010· article· en· 112 citations· W2055661071 on OpenAlex· 10.1080/02786826.2010.501351

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

Canadian affiliationAn author listed a Canadian institution. This is the only route the usual frame has.
Canadian funderA Canadian agency funded it. The work may carry no Canadian affiliation at all.

Full frame distilled prediction

Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

Candidate categories
none
Consensus categories
none
Domain
Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
Study design
Candidate signal: Bench or experimentalConsensus signal: Bench or experimental
Genre
Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score
0.067
Threshold uncertainty score
0.570
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread
0.279 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

This study exploits the virulent bacteriophages phi 6 (dsRNA) and MS2 (ssRNA) as surrogates for airborne RNA viruses.Two different filter types, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and polycarbonate (PC), were tested for their efficiency in collecting aerosolized RNA phages.Two commercial kits were tested for total RNA isolation.Also, heat shock treatments were performed in three different media to obtain the most favorable conditions for reverse transcription assays of dsRNA.Our findings suggest that PC filters are more suitable to recover infectious airborne RNA viruses as determined by plaque assays.Both types of filters were equally efficient in recovering RNA from aerosolized phage phi 6 as established by qRT-PCR.Viral samples should be treated with QIAamp Viral RNA Mini Kit and a 5 min heat shock treatment at 110 C in TE buffer before RT-PCR to maximize detection of phage phi 6.Overall, the infectivity of the recovered phages was severely affected by the aerosolization/air sampling process and the presence of RNA viruses in air samples should be determined by qRT-PCR.

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The record

Venue
Aerosol Science and Technology
Topic
Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Field
Environmental Science
Canadian institutions
Université LavalInstitut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec
Funders
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Keywords
RNAAerosolizationRNA silencingVirologyInfectivityBacteriophageNucleic acidMicrobiologyChemistryBiologyMolecular biologyVirusRNA interferenceEscherichia coliBiochemistryGene
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yes