Persistence of caliciviruses in artificially contaminated oysters during depuration.
The fate of calicivirus in oysters in a 10-day depuration was assessed. The norovirus gene was persistently detected from artificially contaminated oysters during the depuration, whereas feline calicivirus in oysters was promptly eliminated. The prolonged observation of norovirus in oysters implies the existence of a selective retention mechanism for norovirus within oysters.
Ueki
You
Y
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba 6-6-06, Sendai 980-8579, Japan.
Shoji
Mika
M
Suto
Atsushi
A
Tanabe
Toru
T
Okimura
Yoko
Y
Kikuchi
Yoshihiko
Y
Saito
Noriyuki
N
Sano
Daisuke
D
Omura
Tatsuo
T
D000818:Animals; D017927:Calicivirus, Feline / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015342:DNA Probes; D005506:Food Contamination; D005511:Food Handling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D029322:Norovirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010125:Ostreidae / Q000502:physiology / Q000821:virology*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012758:Shellfish / Q000821:virology*; D014876:Water Pollution
D015342:DNA Probes