Sunlight Inactivation of Human Norovirus and Bacteriophage MS2 Using a Genome-Wide PCR-Based Approach and Enzyme Pretreatment.

Environmental Science & Technology
Stephanie K LoebAlexandria B Boehm

Abstract

Human norovirus (hNoV) is an important etiology of gastrointestinal illness and can be transmitted via ingestion of contaminated water. Currently impractical to culture, hNoV detection is reliant on real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)-based methods. This approach cannot distinguish between infective and inactivated viruses because intact regions of the RNA genome can amplify even if the damage is present in other regions of the genome or because intact genetic material is not contained within an infectious virion. Herein, we employ a multiple long-amplicon RT-qPCR extrapolation approach to assay genome-wide damage and an enzymatic pretreatment to study the impact of simulated sunlight on the infectivity of hNoV in clear, sensitizer-free water. Using MS2 coliphage as an internal control, the genome-wide damage extrapolation approach, previously successfully applied for UV-254 inactivation, vastly overestimated sunlight inactivation, suggesting key differences in photoinactivation under different spectral conditions. hNoV genomic RNA was more susceptible to simulated sunlight degradation per base compared to MS2 genomic RNA, while enzymatic pretreatment indicated that hNoV experienced more capsid damage than MS2. This wo...Continue Reading

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