Why the study?
Does a hanging-drop single-tube nested RT-PCR method effectively detect RNA viruses in clinical fecal samples from patients with gastroenteritis?
Population
Clinical fecal samples from 12 outbreaks and 197 sporadic cases of gastroenteritis from patients presenting…
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May improve etiological diagnosis of viral gastroenteritis; leaves open prospective validation before routine adoption.
Does a hanging-drop single-tube nested RT-PCR method effectively detect RNA viruses in clinical fecal samples from patients with gastroenteritis?
The hanging-drop single-tube nested RT-PCR method is effective for detecting RNA viruses in clinical fecal samples, revealing different viral prevalence patterns between hospital and community settings.
Ratcliff et al. (2002) studied this question.
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