Short communication: Could the genexpert system be a new tool for poliovirus detection in the sewage water?
Short communication: Could the genexpert system be a new tool for poliovirus detection in the sewage water?
Roum Arch Microbiol Immunol. 2016 Jan-Jun;75(1-2):52-4
Authors: Bãicuş A
Abstract
Environmental enterovirus surveillance plays a key
role in the detection and identification of importation of
circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses into polio-free
areas. In 2015, 2 cases of paralytic poliomyelitis caused
by circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1
(cVDPV1), from south-western Ukraine, bordering
Romania, were confirmed. Romania was considered a
country at risk and the environmental enterovirus
surveillance was enhanced. In this context we tried to
find a diagnosis algorithm for the rapid detection of
poliovirus (PV) in the sewage water, using a
combination between a rapid molecular method for
human enterovirus (HEV) detection using the
GeneXpert system and the virus isolation on cell culture
lines. By using this algorithm, we would be able to give
a rapid response in an emergency situation, such as the
risk of polio importation.
PMID: 29616534 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Roumanian Archives of Microbiology and Immunology - Category: Microbiology Tags: Roum Arch Microbiol Immunol Source Type: research
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