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EPA Method 1615. Measurement of Enterovirus and Norovirus Occurrence in Water by Culture and RT-qPCR. Part III. Virus Detection by RT-qPCR
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Histo-blood group antigen assay for detecting noroviruses in water
1Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. jcannon@uga.edu
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|September 9, 2008
Abstract:
We evaluated a novel, magnetic-bead-based histo-blood group antigen assay for the recovery of low numbers of norovirus particles. Using this assay, with Norwalk virus seeded in environmental waters as a model, we were able to recover 30 to 300 genomic copies of the virus.

