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Appropriate swab method for monitoring norovirus on environmental surfaces in an urban hospital
Environmental surface contamination leads to microbial transmission. Norovirus is a leading cause of acute nonbacterial gastroenteritis. The virus remains stable in various environments and spreads through multiple routes, including direct contact with surfaces. This study aims to apply the swab method to detect norovirus on environmental surfaces in an urban hospital. Sterile distilled water used as the swab wetting buffer provided the highest recovery rate for norovirus (101.3 % ± 22.7 %). The norovirus GII concentration recovered from environmental surfaces ranged from 104 to 106 genome copies/mL, with average recovery rates of 112.1 % ± 45.4 % for polystyrene, 66.0 % ± 47.1 % for stainless steel, and 40.6 % ± 15.6 % for ceramic. The presence of norovirus on 210 environmental surfaces surrounding hospitalized patients was determined by reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). Subsequent RT-nested PCR revealed positivity for norovirus GI (GI.3) in only 1 of 210 samples. Therefore, the swab test technique should be considered for routine monitoring for norovirus contamination on hospital surfaces. The results of this study can help guide the control and prevention of infectious diseases in hospitals.
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The Journal of Microbiological Methods publishes scholarly and original articles, notes and review articles. These articles must include novel and/or state-of-the-art methods, or significant improvements to existing methods. Novel and innovative applications of current methods that are validated and useful will also be published. JMM strives for scholarship, innovation and excellence. This demands scientific rigour, the best available methods and technologies, correctly replicated experiments/tests, the inclusion of proper controls, calibrations, and the correct statistical analysis. The presentation of the data must support the interpretation of the method/approach.
All aspects of microbiology are covered, except virology. These include agricultural microbiology, applied and environmental microbiology, bioassays, bioinformatics, biotechnology, biochemical microbiology, clinical microbiology, diagnostics, food monitoring and quality control microbiology, microbial genetics and genomics, geomicrobiology, microbiome methods regardless of habitat, high through-put sequencing methods and analysis, microbial pathogenesis and host responses, metabolomics, metagenomics, metaproteomics, microbial ecology and diversity, microbial physiology, microbial ultra-structure, microscopic and imaging methods, molecular microbiology, mycology, novel mathematical microbiology and modelling, parasitology, plant-microbe interactions, protein markers/profiles, proteomics, pyrosequencing, public health microbiology, radioisotopes applied to microbiology, robotics applied to microbiological methods,rumen microbiology, microbiological methods for space missions and extreme environments, sampling methods and samplers, soil and sediment microbiology, transcriptomics, veterinary microbiology, sero-diagnostics and typing/identification.