De Medici Dario, Croci Luciana, Suffredini Elisabetta, Toti Laura
Laboratorio Alimenti, Istituto Superior di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2004 Oct;70(10):6329-32. doi: 10.1128/AEM.70.10.6329-6332.2004.
The methods commonly used for norovirus (NV) detection are based on reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) followed by confirmation of the amplified sequence. To increase sensitivity, an RT-booster PCR was developed. The proposed method showed an increase in sensitivity at least 2 log units for all the NV strains tested compared with the standard RT-PCR method. Higher sensitivity was confirmed in tests on experimentally and naturally contaminated shellfish.
用于诺如病毒(NV)检测的常用方法是基于逆转录聚合酶链反应(RT-PCR),随后对扩增序列进行确认。为了提高灵敏度,开发了一种RT增强型PCR。与标准RT-PCR方法相比,所提出的方法对所有测试的NV毒株的灵敏度至少提高了2个对数单位。在对实验性和自然污染的贝类进行的测试中证实了更高的灵敏度。