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A critical review of methods for detecting human noroviruses and predicting their infectivity
20 Aug 2012
Abstract excerpt
Human noroviruses (hNoVs) are the single most common cause of acute non-bacterial gastroenteritis in the industrialized world but cannot be grown in simple culture systems. Different approaches for detecting hNoVs and predicting their infectivity are reviewed. Although reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) is the most widely used method to detect human noroviruses (hNoVs) it is unable to discriminate...
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