RNA was purified from 100 μL of each swab sample using the RNeasy Plus Mini Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany, Cat. #74136). 600 μL of buffer RLT was used in the first step, and RNA was eluted with 50 μL of water in the final step. The gDNA eliminator column step was omitted.
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