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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2014

Microfluidic quantitative PCR for simultaneous quantification of multiple viruses in environmental water samples.

Satoshi Ishii, Gaku Kitamura, Takahiro Segawa, Ayano Kobayashi, Takayuki Miura, Daisuke Sano, Satoshi Okabe

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Satoshi IshiiDivision of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan s.ishii@eng.hokudai.ac.jp.
Gaku KitamuraDivision of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Takahiro SegawaNational Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Ayano KobayashiDivision of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Takayuki MiuraDivision of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Daisuke SanoDivision of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Satoshi OkabeDivision of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To secure food and water safety, quantitative information on multiple pathogens is important. In this study, we developed a microfluidic quantitative PCR (MFQPCR) system to simultaneously quantify 11 major human viral pathogens, including adenovirus, Aichi virus, astrovirus, enterovirus, human norovirus, rotavirus, sapovirus, and hepatitis A and E viruses. Murine norovirus and mengovirus were also quantified in our MFQPCR system as a sample processing control and an internal amplification control, respectively. River water contaminated with effluents from a wastewater treatment plant in Sapporo, Japan, was collected and used to validate our MFQPCR system for multiple viruses. High-throughput quantitative information was obtained with a quantification limit of 2 copies/μl of cDNA/DNA. Using this MFQPCR system, we could simultaneously quantify multiple viral pathogens in environmental water samples. The viral quantities obtained using MFQPCR were similar to those determined by conventional quantitative PCR. Thus, the MFQPCR system developed in this study can provide direct and quantitative information for viral pathogens, which is essential for risk assessments.

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JapanMicrofluidicsMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyPolymerase Chain ReactionRiversVirusesWastewaterWastewater

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PMID25261510
PMCPMC4249240

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