Histo-Blood Group Antigen Assay for Detecting Noroviruses in Water
- 1 November 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 74 (21) , 6818-6819
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01302-08
Abstract
We evaluated a novel, magnetic-bead-based histo-blood group antigen assay for the recovery of low numbers of norovirus particles. Using this assay, with Norwalk virus seeded in environmental waters as a model, we were able to recover 30 to 300 genomic copies of the virus.Keywords
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