Resilience of Norovirus GII.4 to Freezing and Thawing: Implications for Virus Infectivity

Food and Environmental Virology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 192-197

  Richards, Gary P ^a   Watson, Michael A ^a   Meade, Gloria K ^a   Hovan, Gregory L ^b   Kingsley, David H ^a  

^a DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Delaware Public Health Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Capsid integrity; Freezing; Infectivity; Norovirus; Persistence; Thawing

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MUCIN; RIBONUCLEASE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; NOROVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS PARTICLE; WINTER;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CAPSID; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; FREEZING; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; NOROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, VIRAL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

MIRIDAE; NOROVIRUS; SUS;

EID: 84870418915     PISSN: 18670334     EISSN: 18670342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12560-012-9089-6     Document Type: Article

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