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KMID : 0881720140290010031
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Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
2014 Volume.29 No. 1 p.31 ~ p.39
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Quantitative Analysis of Feline Calicivirus Inactivation using Real-time RT-PCR
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Jeong Hye-Mi
Kim Kwang-Yup
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Abstract
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Norovirus causes acute gastroenteritis in all age groups and its food poisoning outbreaks are rapidly increasing in Korea. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is most widely used for the rapid detection of foodborne viruses due to high sensitivity. However, the false positive results of RT-PCR obtained against already inactivated viruses could be a serious drawbacks in food safety area. In this study, we investigated a method to yield true positive RT-PCR results only with alive viruses. To decompose the RNA genes from dead viruses, the enzymatic treatments composed of proteinse K and Ribonuclease A were applied to the sanitized and inactivated virus particles. Another aim of this study was to quantify the efficiencies of several major sanitizing treatments using realtime RT-PCR. Feline calicivirus (FCV) that belongs to the same Caliciviridae family with norovirus was used as a surrogate model for norovirus. The initial level of virus in control suspension was approximately 104 PFU/mL. Most of inactivated viruses treated with the enzymatic treatment for 30 min at 37o C were not detected in RT-PCR, Quantification results to verify the inactivation efficiencies of sanitizing treatments using real-time RT-PCR showed no false positive in most cases. We could successfully develope a numerical quantification process for the inactivated viruses after major sanitizing treatments using real-time RT-PCR. The results obtained in this study could provide a novel basis of rapid virus quantification in food safety area.
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KEYWORD
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Norovirus, Feline Calicivirus, Inactivation, Enzymatic treatment, Real-time RT-PCR
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