Use of heat release and an internal RNA standard control in reverse transcription-PCR detection of Norwalk virus from stool samples

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Norwalk virus (NV) and the Norwalk-like viruses are important human pathogens that cause epidemic acute viral gastroenteritis. Current techniques used to recover NV from clinical samples involve multistep viral extraction and elution procedures with subsequent viral detection by reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR). In this study, a simple method using heat to recover viral RNA from 45 stool samples was compared to...

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