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Real-time Nucleic Acid Sequence Based Amplification (Real-time NASBA) for Detection of Norovirus  

Lee, In-Soo (Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Hyejeon College)
Choi, Dong-Hyuk (Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Yonsei University)
Lim, Jae-Won (Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Yonsei University)
Cho, Yoon-Jung (Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Yonsei University)
Jeong, Hye-Sook (National Institute of Health)
Cheon, Doo-Sung (National Institute of Health)
Bang, Hye-Eun (Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Yonsei University)
Jin, Hyun-Woo (Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Yonsei University)
Choi, Yeon-Im (Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Yonsei University)
Park, Sang-Jung (Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Yonsei University)
Kim, Sung-hyun (Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Yonsei University)
Lee, Hye-Young (Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Yonsei University)
Kim, Tae-Ue (Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Yonsei University)
Abstract
Noroviruses (noroV) are the major cause of nonbacterial gastroenteritis in humans worldwide. Since noroV cannot yet be cultured in vitro and their diagnosis by electron microscopy requires at least $10^6$ viral particles/g of stool a variety of molecular detection techniques represent an important step towards the detection of noroV. In the present study, we have applied real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (real-time NASBA) for simultaneous detection of NoroV genogroup I (GI) and genogroup II (GII) using standard viral RNA. For real-time NASBA assay which can detected noroV GI and GII, a selective region of the genes encoding the capsid protein was used to design primers and genotype-specific molecular beacon probes. The specificity of the real-time NASBA using newly designed primers and probes were confirmed using standard viral RNA of noroV GI and GII. To determine the sensitivity of this assay, serial 10-fold dilutions of standard viral RNA of noroV GI and GII were used for reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and real-time NASBA. The results showed that while agarose gel electrophoresis could detect RT-PCR products with 10 pg of standard viral RNA, the real-time NASBA assay could detect 100 fg of standard viral RNA. These results suggested that the real-time NASBA assay has much higher sensitivity than conventional RT-PCR assay. This assay was expected that might detect the viral RNA in the specimens which could have been false negative by RT-PCR. There were needed to perform real-time NASBA with clinical specimens for evaluating accurate sensitivity and specificity of this assay.
Keywords
Norovirus; Real-time NASBA; RT-PCR;
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