Comparison of Modified Manual Acid-Phenol Chloroform Method and Commercial RNA Extraction Kits for Resource Limited Laboratories

Table 1

This shows the cost involved in extracting 50 samples using each method.

Item	Quantity	Price
Homemade TRIzol	60 ml	$1.85 (GH₵18.4)
Lysis buffer	500 ml	$3.03 (GH₵30.45)
Total		$4.88 (GH₵48.85)
QIAamp viral RNA kit	1 box	$314 (GH₵3158.81)
OxGEn kit	1 box	$113.04 (GH₵1119.1)

Note. Bold values represent significant difference at p < 0.0001.