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[Subject Matter] Food Processing & Food Products [Docket] 53.11 [Title] METHOD FOR DETECTING AND DISTINGUISHING INFECTIOUS NOROVIRUS FROM INACTIVATED NOROVIRUS [Description] 
The USDA has discovered that inactivation processes that damage the virus capsid generally results in norovirus that can’t attach to its receptor (as judged by inability to interact with swine mucin). Thus using swine mucine, it is possible to distinguish between infectious norovirus and inactivated norovirus; using swine mucin magnetic beads, it is possible to extract only potentially infectious norovirus leaving behind inactivated virus. By marrying this virus extraction method to RT-PCR detection techniques, ARS has made a practical assay for detection of infectious norovirus.
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