Potential Risk of Norovirus Infection Due to the Consumption of "Ready to Eat" Food

Food and Environmental Virology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 89-92

  Laura, Serracca ^a,c   Irene, Rossini ^a   Roberta, Battistini ^a   Maria, Goria ^b   Serena, Sant ^b   Gabriella, De Montis ^a   Carlo, Ercolini ^a  

^a Marine Microbiology Laboratory of the Expt Zooprophylactic Inst of Piemonte Liguria e Valle d'Ao   (Italy)

^b Molecular Microbiology and Genomic Analyses Laboratory of the Expt Zooprophylactic Inst of Piemont   (Italy)

^c Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale 'A Mirri'   (Italy)

Author keywords

Norovirus; PCR; Ready to eat food; Sun dried tomatoes

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; GENE SEQUENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; INFECTION RISK; ITALY; MARKET; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READY TO EAT FOOD; SUN DRIED TOMATO; TOMATO; VEGETABLE; VIRUS DETECTION;

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; FAST FOODS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; ITALY; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NOROVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS;

ADENOVIRIDAE; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NOROVIRUS;

EID: 84865776626     PISSN: 18670334     EISSN: 18670342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12560-012-9081-1     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Allard, A., Albisson, B., & Wadell, G. (2001). Rapid typing of human adenoviruses by a general PCR combined with restriction endo-nuclease analysis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, doi: 10. 1128/JCM. 39. 2. 498-505. 2001.
2. Altschul, S. F., Gish, W., Miller, W., Myers, E. W., & Lipman, D. J. (1990). Basic local alignment search tool. Journal of Molecular Biology, 215(3), 403-410.
3. Bidawid, S., Farber, J. M., Sattar, S. A., & Hayward, S. (2000). Heat inactivation of Hepatitis A virus in diary foods. Journal of Food Protection, 63(4), 522-528.
4. Butot, S., Putallaz, T., Amoroso, R., & Sanchez, G. (2009). Inactivation of enteric viruses in minimally processed berries and herbs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10. 1128/AEM00182-09.
5. Carter, M. J. (2005). Enterically infecting viruses: pathogenicity, transmission and significance for food and waterborne infection. Journal of Applied Microbiology, doi: 10. 1111/J. 1365-2672. 2005. 02635x.
6. Cheong, S., Lee, C., Song, S. W., Choi, W. C., Lee, C. H., & Kim, S. J. (2009). Enteric viruses in raw vegetables and groundwater used for irrigation in South Korea. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, doi: 10. 1128/AEM. 01629-09.
7. Craven, H., Duffy, L., Fegan, N., & Hillier, A. (2009). Semi dried tomatoes and hepatitis A virus. CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences, Victoria. http://www. foodstandards. gov. au/_srcfiles/P1012%20Hep%20A%20in%20semi-dried%20tomatoes%20Initial%20Cons%20SD1. pdf.
8. Di Bartolo, I., Martelli, F., Inglese, N., Pourshaban, M., Caprioli, A., Ostanello, F., et al. (2008). Widespread diffusion of genotype 3 hepatitis E virus among farming swine in Northern Italy. Veterinary Microbiology, doi: 10. 1016/j. vetmic. 2008. 04. 028.
9. Doultree, J. C., Druce, J. D., Birch, C. J., Bowden, D. S., & Marshall, J. A. (1999). Inactivation of feline calicivirus, a Norwalk virus surrogate. Journal of Hospital Infection, 41(1), 51-57.
10. Erker, J. C., Desai, S. M., & Mushahwar, I. K. (1999). Rapid detection of Hepatitis E virus RNA by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction using universal oligonucleotide primers. Journal of Virological Methods, 81(1-2), 109-113.
11. European Food Safety Authorities. (2007). The community summary report on trends and sources of zoonoses, zoonotic agents, antimicrobial resistance and foodborne outbreaks in the European Union in 2006. EFSA Journal, 130.
12. Fraisse, A., Temmam, S., Deboosere, N., Guillier, L., Delobel, A., & Maris, P. (2011). Comparison of chlorine and peroxyacetic-based disinfectant to inactivate Feline calicivirus, Murine norovirus and Hepatitis A virus on lettuce. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 151(1), 98-104.
13. Koopmans, M., & Duizer, E. (2004). Foodborne viruses: an emerging problem. International Journal of Food Microbiology, doi: 10. 1016/S0168-1605(03)00169-7.
14. Kuo, H. W., Schmid, D., Jelovcan, S., Pilcher, A. M., Magnet, E., Reichart, S., et al. (2009). A foodborne outbreak due to Norovirus in Austria, 2007. Journal of Food Protection, 72(1), 193-196.
15. Le Guyader, F., Dubois, E., Menare, D., & Pommepuy, M. (1994). Detection of hepatitis A virus, rotavirus and enterovirus in naturally contaminated shellfish and sediment by reverse transcription-heminetsed PCR. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 60(10), 3665-3671.
16. Maunula, L., Roivaunen, M., Keranen, M., Makela, S., Soderberg, K., Summa, M., et al. (2009). Detection of human Norovirus from frozen raspberries in a cluster of gastroenteritis outbreaks. European Surveillance, 49(14): ppi 19435.
17. Mead, P. S., Slutsker, L., Dietz, V., McCaig, L. F., Bresee, J. S., Shapiro, C., et al. (1999). Food-related illness and death in the United states. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 5(5), 607-625.
18. Petrignani, M., Harms, M., Verhoef, L., van Hunen, R., Swaan, C., van Steenbergen, J., et al. (2010). Update: A food-borne outbreak of hepatitis A in the Netherlands related to semi-dried tomatoes in oil, January-February 2010. European Surveillance, 20(15): 19572.
19. Puig, M., Jofre, J., Lucena, F., Allard, A., Waddel, G., & Girones, G. (1994). Detection of adenoviruses and enteroviruses in polluted waters by nested-PCR amplification. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 60(8), 2963-2970.
20. Rzezutka, A., & Cook, N. (2004). Survival of human enteric viruses in the environment and food. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 28(4), 441-453.
21. Serracca, L., Gallo, F., Rossini, I., Benedetto, A., Lacerenza, D., Callipo, M. R., et al. (2010). Official surveillance of Hepatitis A virus: description of an HAV detection method in shellfish. Food and Environmental Virology,. doi: 10. 1007/s12560-009-9015-8.
22. Teunis, P. F., Moe, C. L., Liu, P., Miller, S. E., Lindesmith, L., Baric, R. S., et al. (2008). Norwalk virus: how infectious is it? Journal of Medical Virology, 80(8), 1468-1476.
23. Vennema, H., De Bruin, E., & Koopmans, M. (2002). Rational optimization of generic primers used for Norwalk-like virus detection by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. Journal of Clinical Virology, 25(2), 233-235.
24. Vinjé, J., & Koopmans, M. (1996). Molecular detection and epidemiology of small round-structured viruses in a outbreaks of gastroenteritis in the Netherlands. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 174(3), 610-615.
25. Wadl, M., Scherer, K., Nielsen, S., Diedrich, S., Ellerbroek, L., Frank, C., et al. (2010). Food-borne norovirus-outbreak at a military base, Germany, 2009. BMC Infectious Diseases,. doi: 10. 1186/1471-2334-10-30.