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Molecular detection and epidemiology of Sapporo-like viruses.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2000
Vinjé J, Deijl H, van der Heide R, Lewis D, Hedlund K O, Svensson L, Koopmans M P
Abstract excerpt
Sapporo-like viruses (SLVs) are associated with acute gastroenteritis in humans. Due to a limited supply of available reagents for diagnosis, little is known about the incidence and pathogenicity of these viruses. We have developed a first-generation generic reverse transcriptase (RT) PCR assay based on a single primer pair targeting the RNA polymerase gene. With this assay, 55 (93%) of the 59 stool specimens...
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