Fig. 2

Induction of strand breaks in the IAV genome by UV exposure. IAV suspensions were irradiated with a UV lamp for increasing periods of time between 15 s to 5 min. a Representative PCR product (145 bp) was visualized by agarose gel electrophoresis to show the primer specificity. MW; Molecular weight marker (b) IAV copy number was then measured by conventional RT-qPCR. Assays were carried out in triplicate and values represent the mean ± standard error