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SUBMITTER: Seitz SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3187119 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seitz Scot R SR Leon Juan S JS Schwab Kellogg J KJ Lyon G Marshall GM Dowd Melissa M McDaniels Marisa M Abdulhafid Gwen G Fernandez Marina L ML Lindesmith Lisa C LC Baric Ralph S RS Moe Christine L CL
Applied and environmental microbiology 20110819 19
To examine the long-term infectivity of human norovirus in water, 13 study subjects were challenged at different time points with groundwater spiked with the prototype human norovirus, Norwalk virus. Norwalk virus spiked in groundwater remained infectious after storage at room temperature in the dark for 61 days (the last time point tested). The Norwalk virus-seeded groundwater was stored for 1,266 days and analyzed, after RNase treatment, by reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) to d ...[more]