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Published on: December 3, 2011
[Detection of human rotaviruses in faeces : comparison of five methods]
E Baillargeau1, S Ranger1, G Agius1
1Laboratoire de Microbiologie B, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, BP 577, F 86021 Poitiers Cédex France.
Abstract:
The authors have tested 118 stools by five techniques used for the detection of rotaviruses in human faeces : electron microscopy, latex agglutination (Slidex Rota-kit : BioMérieux ; Rotalex : Orion Diagnostica) and ELISA (Enzygnost : Behring ; Bio-Enza-Bead : Bionetics). Reproducibility and specificity for all techniques were satisfactory. Comparison of the methods showed Enzygnost to be the most sensitive (89 %), followed by the two agglutination tests, then electron microscopy and least sensitive the Bio-Enza-Bead (56 %). For large - scale screening of faeces, it appeared that the latex agglutination test were preferable for reasons of simplicity, speed and cost.
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