Factors that inhibit the amplification of nucleic acids by PCR are present with target DNAs
from many sources. The inhibitors generally act at one or more of three essential points in …

1. Introduction rman, 1999), only contaminating human viruses have ever been associated
with illness in seafood consum-Two fundamental properties of viruses limit the ers. Viral …

Bivalve Molluscs is an extremely comprehensive book covering all major aspects of this
important class of invertebrates. As well as being an important class biologically and …

Handbook of food science, technology, and engineering Page 1 HANDBOOK of FOOD
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ENGINEERING Volume 4 Edited by YH HUI Associate Editors …

We developed a new procedure for concentration of enteric viruses from water using a
negatively charged membrane. Rinsing the membrane with 0.5 mM H2SO4 (pH 3.0) in order …

Human noroviruses (NoVs) are the leading cause of food-and waterborne outbreaks of
acute nonbacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. As a result of the lack of a mammalian cell …

Sewerage systems are important nodes to monitor human enteric pathogens transmitted via
water. A quantitative virus survey was performed once a month for a year to understand the …

Gastroenteritis is one of the most common illnesses of humans, and many different viruses
have been causally associated with this disease. Of those enteric viruses that have been …

Enterically infecting viruses are ubiquitous agents, mostly inducing silent infections. Several
are however associated with significant diseases in man from diarrhoea and vomiting to …

Recent studies on the contamination of groundwater with human enteric viruses have
focused on public water systems, whereas little is known about the occurrence of viruses in …