Comparison of the Activity of Alcohol-Based Handrubs Against Human Noroviruses Using the Fingerpad Method and Quantitative Real-Time PCR

Food and Environmental Virology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-42

  Liu, Pengbo ^a   Macinga, David R ^b   Fernandez, Marina L ^a   Zapka, Carrie ^b   Hsiao, Hui Mien ^a   Berger, Brynn ^a   Arbogast, James W ^b   Moe, Christine L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOJO Industries Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

ASTM; Fingerpad; Handrub; Norovirus; Quantitative RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL; GENOTYPE; HAND SANITIZER; HYGIENE PRODUCT; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

NOROVIRUS; NORWALK VIRUS; SNOW MOUNTAIN VIRUS;

EID: 79952897688     PISSN: 18670334     EISSN: 18670342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12560-011-9053-x     Document Type: Article

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