ArticleTransplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society2022
Quantitative norovirus viral load is not affected by home storage of stool.
Article in Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Genogroup-Specific Multiplex Reverse Transcriptase Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for Point-of-Care Detection of Norovirus.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Quantitative norovirus viral load is not affected by home storage of stool.Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society · 2022Article
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Abstract
In preparation of a clinical trial of norovirus treatment, there were concerns raised by FDA about risk of self-storage of stool from patients infected with norovirus affecting quantitative assessments of norovirus RNA. Specifically, most home freezers are frost-free and may expose the samples to multiple rounds of freeze-thaw. Stool samples collected by the study team were stored at different lengths in a frost-free freezer and at -80°C. Quantitative PCRs of norovirus were performed on all samples using the same assay. By all measures, there was no significant change in measured viral load with home storage.
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