Quantification of Hepatitis A Virus in Shellfish by Competitive Reverse Transcription-PCR with Coextraction of Standard RNA

AUTOR(ES)

Arnal, Charlotte

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

To quantify hepatitis A virus (HAV) in experimentally contaminated mussels, we developed an internal standard RNA with a 7-nucleotide deletion for competitive reverse transcription (RT)-PCR. Deposited directly into the sample, this standard was used both as extraction control and as quantification tool. After coextraction and competitive RT-PCR, standard and wild-type products were detected by differential hybridization with specific probes and a DNA enzyme immunoassay. The quantifiable range with this reproducible method was 104 to 107 copies of HAV/gram or 400 to 106 50% tissue culture infective doses/ml.

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