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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2008

Sensitive detection of multiple rotavirus genotypes with a single reverse transcription-real-time quantitative PCR assay.

Ion Gutiérrez-Aguirre, Andrej Steyer, Jana Boben, Kristina Gruden, Mateja Poljsak-Prijatelj, Maja Ravnikar

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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41citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ion Gutiérrez-AguirreDepartment of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, National Institute of Biology, Vecna pot 111, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia. ion.gutierrez@nib.si
Andrej Steyer
Jana Boben
Kristina Gruden
Mateja Poljsak-Prijatelj
Maja Ravnikar
National Institute of Biology · SIUniversity of Ljubljana · SI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rotaviruses are one of the major causes of diarrhea in infants and children under 5 years old, especially affecting developing countries. In natural disasters, fecal matter and potable waters can mix, allowing low, yet infective, concentrations of rotavirus to be present in water supplies, constituting a risk for the population. Any of the most commonly detected rotavirus genotypes could originate an outbreak. The development of a fast and sensitive method that could detect the broadest possible range of rotavirus genotypes would help with efficient diagnosis and prevention. We have designed a reverse transcription (RT)-real-time quantitative PCR approach targeted to the rotaviral VP2 gene, based on a multiple-sequence alignment of different human rotaviral strains. To overcome the high nucleotide sequence diversity, multiple forward and reverse primers were used, in addition to a degenerate probe. The performance of the assay was tested on isolates representing the most prevalent human genotypes: G1P[8], G2P[4], G3P[8], G4P[8], G9P[8], and G12P[8]. The developed method improved classical rotavirus detection by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and nested RT-PCR by 5 and at least 1 order of magnitude, respectively. A survey of 159 stool samples indicated that the method can efficiently detect a broad range of rotavirus strains, including different G-P genotype combinations of human, porcine, and bovine origin. No cross-reactivity was observed with other enteric viruses, such as astrovirus, sapovirus, and norovirus.

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Base SequenceCapsid ProteinsChild, PreschoolFecesHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMolecular Sequence DataOligonucleotide ProbesReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRotavirusRotavirus InfectionsSensitivity and SpecificitySequence AlignmentVirologyCapsid ProteinsOligonucleotide ProbesVP2 protein, Rotavirus

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PMID18524966
PMCPMC2519481
OpenAlexW2117943561

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