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Screening of fruit products for norovirus and the difficulty of interpreting positive PCR results.
Journal of food protection - 1 Mar 2011
Stals Ambroos, Baert Leen, Jasson Vicky, Van Coillie Els, Uyttendaele Mieke
Abstract excerpt
Despite recent norovirus (NoV) outbreaks related to consumption of fruit products, little is known regarding the NoV load on these foods. Therefore, 75 fruit products were screened for NoV presence by using an evaluated in-house NoV detection methodology consisting of a NoV extraction method and a reverse transcription quantitative PCR assay. Additionally, the fruit samples were screened for bacterial pathogens...
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