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Detection of Norovirus in clinical samples of human provenience, in environmental and food samples to investigate virus transmission routes
Project
Project code: BfR-BIOS-08-1322-268
Contract period: 01.02.2007
- 31.12.2009
Purpose of research: Applied research
Norovirus has emerged as the most common cause of non bacterial gastroenteritis in humans. In Germany, a total of 75766 human Norovirus cases were reported in 2006. Noroviruses are transmitted from person to person by faecal-oral route, either directly or indirectly via contaminated surfaces, food, and water. With an infectious dose of 10-100 virus particles, contagiosity of Norovirus is very high. Detection of viruses in food and environmental samples and hence identification of routes of transmission is difficult and currently not stan-dardised. The object of our study is therefore to establish and standardise present methods of virus detection in food and environmental samples to identify possible routes of transmis-sion.
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Subjects
- Animal health
- Toxicology
