“…One technique being evaluated is the 5Ј nuclease assay (5NA). 7 This has been used to detect Listeria, 8 human papillomaviruses, 9 Salmonella, 10 hepatitis C virus, 11 Aspergillus, 12 tuberculosis, 13 plague, 14 and orthopoxviruses. 15 The TaqMan System (Perkin Elmer/Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) represents a 5NA in which a reporter dye (6-carboxy-fluorescein [FAM], tetrachloro-6-carboxyfluorescein [TET], 2,7-dimethoxy-4,5-dichloro-6-carboxyfluorescein [JOE], or VIC, proprietary name; Perkin-Elmer) is covalently linked to the 5Ј end of a selected oligonucleotide probe.…”