Time to revisit the endpoint dilution assay and to replace the TCID50 as a measure of a virus sample’s infection concentration
The endpoint dilution assay’s output, the 50% infectious dose (ID50), is calculated using the Reed-Muench or Spearman-Kärber mathematical approximations, which are biased and often miscalculated. We introduce a replacement for the ID50 that we call Specific INfection (SIN) along with a free and ope...
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Public Library of Science
2021
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