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[Usefulness of a newly developed immunochromatographic assay kit for the detection of norovirus in stool specimens].
Kansenshogaku zasshi. The Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases - 1 Jan 2013
Yamazaki Tsutomu, Yui Ikuko, Morishima Naoya, Kuroki Haruo
Abstract excerpt
We evaluated the usefulness of ImmunoCatch-Noro (Eiken Chemical Co., Ltd.) (IC-A), a newly developed immunochromatography kit using Au colloid, for the detection of norovirus in stool specimens collected from patients with acute gastroenteritis during the three-year period from 2008-2011. When a total of 316 specimens were tested by RT-PCR and direct sequencing of the PCR products, norovirus was detected in 198...
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