期刊
FOOD AND ENVIRONMENTAL VIROLOGY
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 93-106出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12560-020-09454-w
关键词
Norovirus; PMAxx™ Bivalve molluscs; Diagnosis
资金
- Service Public Federal 'Sante Publique, Securite de la Chaine alimentaire et Environnement' [RT15/8 IQUINOR2]
- Fund Leon Fredericq for biomedical research at the University Hospital of Liege
- German Academic Exchange Service
This study developed a more accurate method for estimating infectious norovirus load by combining PMAxx(TM) pre-treatment and RT-qPCR for murine norovirus detection. The combination of bead-based virus extraction and PMAxx(TM) RT-qPCR provides a more precise model for assessing noroviral bivalve mollusc contamination, potentially enhancing food safety management.
Human noroviruses are a major cause for gastroenteritis outbreaks. Filter-feeding bivalve molluscs, which accumulate noroviruses in their digestive tissues, are a typical vector for human infection. RT-qPCR, the established method for human norovirus detection in food, does not allow discrimination between infectious and non-infectious viruses and can overestimate potentially infectious viral loads. To develop a more accurate method of infectious norovirus load estimation, we combined intercalating agent propidium monoazide (PMAxx (TM))-pre-treatment with RT-qPCR assay using in vitro-cultivable murine norovirus. Three primer sets targeting different genome regions and diverse amplicon sizes were used to compare one-step amplification of a short genome fragment to three two-step long-range RT-qPCRs (7 kbp, 3.6 kbp and 2.3 kbp amplicons). Following initial assays performed on untreated infectious, heat-, or ultraviolet-inactivated murine noroviruses in PBS suspension, PMAxx (TM) RT-qPCRs were implemented to detect murine noroviruses subsequent to their extraction from mussel digestive tissues; virus extraction via anionic polymer-coated magnetic beads was compared with the proteinase K-dependent ISO norm. The long-range RT-qPCR process detecting fragments of more than 2.3 kbp allowed accurate estimation of the infectivity of UV-damaged murine noroviruses. While proteinase K extraction limited later estimation of PMAxx (TM) pre-treatment effects and was found to be unsuited to the assay, magnetic bead-captured murine noroviruses retained their infectivity. Genome copies of heat-inactivated murine noroviruses differed by 2.3 log(10) between RT-qPCR and PMAxx (TM)-RT-qPCR analysis in bivalve molluscs, the PMAxx (TM) pre-treatment allowing a closer approximation of infectious titres. The combination of bead-based virus extraction and PMAxx (TM) RT-qPCR thus provides a more accurate model for the estimation of noroviral bivalve mollusc contamination than the conjunction of proteinase K extraction and RT-qPCR and has the potential (once validated utilising infectious human norovirus) to provide an added measure of security to food safety authorities in the hazard assessment of potential bivalve mollusc contamination.
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