Research Article
Development of Enhanced Primer Sets for Detection of Norovirus
Table 7
Sensitivity of NV GII using each primer set.
| | Positive specimens | NKII F/R/R2 | GII F1/R1/F2 | SRII 1/2/3 |
| | GII.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | GII.3 | 1 | — | 1 | | GII.4 | 18 | 11 | 12 | | GII.6 | 2 | 1 | | | GII.13 | — | 1 | — | | GII.16 | 1 | 1 | — | | GII.17 | 4 | 2 | 4 | | GII.21 | 1 | — | — | | GII | 1 | 1 | 1 | Clinical samples
( = 32) | 30 (93.8%)* | 18 (56.3%) | 19 (59.4%) |
| | GII.4 | 22 | 11 | — | | GII | 1 | 2 | — | | Environmental samples ( = 27) | 23 (85.7%) | 13 (48.1%) | 0 (0%) |
| | Total ( = 59) | 53 (89.3%) | 31 (52.5%) | 19 (32.2%) |
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All values < 0.05 are by -test.
Environmental samples were not detected by SRII 1/2/3 primer set.
*Percentage is NV detection/NV positive ratio.
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