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EPA Method 1615. Measurement of Enterovirus and Norovirus Occurrence in Water by Culture and RT-qPCR. I. Collection of Virus Samples
G. Shay Fout 1, Jennifer L. Cashdollar 1, Eunice A. Varughese 1, Sandhya U. Parshionikar 2, Ann C. Grimm 1
1National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S Environmental Protection Agency, 2Technical Support Center, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, U.S Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Method 1615 uses an electropositive filter to concentrate enteroviruses and noroviruses in environmental and drinking waters. This manuscript describes the procedure for collecting samples for Method 1615 analyses.

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EPA Method 1615. Measurement of Enterovirus and Norovirus Occurrence in Water by Culture and RT-qPCR. II. Total Culturable Virus Assay
G. Shay Fout 1, Jennifer L. Cashdollar 1
1National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Here we present a procedure to measure total culturable viruses using the Buffalo Green Monkey kidney cell line. The procedure provides a standardized tool for measuring the occurrence of infectious viruses in environmental and drinking waters.

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EPA Method 1615. Measurement of Enterovirus and Norovirus Occurrence in Water by Culture and RT-qPCR. Part III. Virus Detection by RT-qPCR
G. Shay Fout 1, Jennifer L. Cashdollar 1, Shannon M. Griffin 1, Nichole E. Brinkman 1, Eunice A. Varughese 1, Sandhya U. Parshionikar 2
1National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2Technical Services Center, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Here we present a procedure to quantify enterovirus and norovirus in environmental and drinking waters using reverse transcription-quantitative PCR. Mean virus recovery from groundwater with this standardized procedure from EPA Method 1615 was 20% for poliovirus and 30% for murine norovirus.

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