Detection of noroviruses in raspberries associated with a gastroenteritis outbreak.
Int J Food Microbiol
; 97(2): 179-86, 2004 Dec 15.
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| ID: mdl-15541804
ABSTRACT
Following an acute foodborne gastroenteritis outbreak in southern Sweden, stool specimens from five of nine ill patients were found positive for norovirus using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. Epidemiological data pointed to raspberry cakes as the source of the outbreak. Using a combination of generic and patient-specific primers and novel food analysis methodology (with extraction efficiency control and inhibitor removal), norovirus strains from two different genogroups were directly identified in the contaminated raspberries.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Infecções por Caliciviridae
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Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa
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Norovirus
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Frutas
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Gastroenterite
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Int J Food Microbiol
Assunto da revista:
CIENCIAS DA NUTRICAO
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MICROBIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2004
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
França