Development of a broadly reactive nested reverse transcription-PCR assay to detect murine noroviruses, and investigation of the prevalence of murine noroviruses in laboratory mice in Japan

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 531-534

  Kitajima, Masaaki ^a   Oka, Tomoichiro ^b   Tohya, Yukinobu ^c,d   Katayama, Hiroyuki ^a   Takeda, Naokazu ^b,e   Katayama, Kazuhiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Laboratory mice; Murine noroviruses; Nested RT PCR; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; JAPAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; JAPAN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RODENT DISEASES;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 75749094015     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2009.00152.x     Document Type: Article

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