Strain-Specific Virolysis Patterns of Human Noroviruses in Response to Alcohols.

Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are widely used to disinfect hands to prevent the spread of pathogens including noroviruses. Alcohols inactivate norovirus by destruction of the viral capsid, resulting in the leakage of viral RNA (virolysis). Since conflicting results have been reported on the suscepti...

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Main Authors: Geun Woo Park, Nikail Collins, Leslie Barclay, Liya Hu, B V Venkataram Prasad, Benjamin A Lopman, Jan Vinjé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4919085?pdf=render