Articles by Romeo Pomari in JoVE

Detection and Genogrouping of Noroviruses from Children's Stools By Taqman One-step RT-PCR

JoVE 3232 7/22/2012

Sonia Apaza¹, Susan Espetia¹, Robert H. Gilman^1,2, Sonia Montenegro³, Susana Pineda³, Fanny Herhold¹, Romeo Pomari¹, Margaret Kosek², Nancy Vu¹, Mayuko Saito^1,2,4

¹Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo (LID), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, ²Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, ³Laboratorio de Diagnostico Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, University of Concepcion,Chile, ⁴University of California San Diego School of Medicine

A One-Step RT-PCR assay for detection and genogroup identification of Norovirus isolates from children’s stools, that utilizes primers and TaqMan probes specific to the open reading frame 1 (ORF1)-ORF2 junction region, the most conserved region of the Norovirus genome is described. A non-commercial, cost-effective RNA extraction method is detailed.