Laboratory efforts to eliminate contamination problems in the real-time RT-PCR detection of noroviruses

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 72-76

  Stals, Ambroos ^a   Werbrouck, Hadewig ^a   Baert, Leen ^b   Botteldoorn, Nadine ^c   Herman, Lieve ^a   Uyttendaele, Mieke ^b   Coillie, Els Van ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

^b Faculty of Bioscience Engineering   (Belgium)

^c SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contamination; False positive; Norovirus; Real time RT PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; GENOMIC DNA; MINERAL OIL; PLASMID DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVAPORATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; PLASMID; PLATE COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS DETECTION;

NOROVIRUS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

NOROVIRUS;

EID: 62349128067     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2009.01.018     Document Type: Article

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