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Reverse transcription-booster PCR for detection of noroviruses in shellfish
Dario De Medici1, Luciana Croci, Elisabetta Suffredini
1Laboratorio Alimenti, Istituto Superior di Sanità, Rome, Italy. dario.demedici@iss.it.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|October 7, 2004
Abstract:
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.

