How do you get the virus out of the sample?

Question: How do you get the virus out of the sample?
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  virus
Asked by anon-255959 to Luke on 1 Jun 2020.
- Luke Hillary answered on 1 Jun 2020:
  
  Hi Robbie. Good question. It depends on what kind of sample I’m looking at. With soil or sludge, I shake it in a solution called a buffer. This splits the viruses from the soil that they might be stuck to. With water, or the soil buffer, I then force it through a sheet with holes smaller than the viruses until there’s only a small amount left. I can then use these concentrated viruses for experiments. If I want to look at the DNA of the viruses, I mix the viruses with chemicals that break them open and then use a machine called a sequencer to “read” the DNA.

Question: How do you get the virus out of the sample?