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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2008, p. 477-484, Vol. 74, No. 2
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02095-06
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Evaluation of Murine Norovirus, Feline Calicivirus, Poliovirus, and MS2 as Surrogates for Human Norovirus in a Model of Viral Persistence in Surface Water and Groundwater{triangledown}

Jinhee Bae and Kellogg J. Schwab*

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, 615 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, Maryland 21205

Received 5 September 2006/ Accepted 19 November 2007

Human noroviruses (NoVs) are a significant cause of nonbacterial gastroenteritis worldwide, with contaminated drinking water a potential transmission route. The absence of a cell culture infectivity model for NoV necessitates the use of molecular methods and/or viral surrogate models amenable to cell culture to predict NoV inactivation. The NoV surrogates murine NoV (MNV), feline calicivirus (FCV), poliovirus (PV), and male-specific coliphage MS2, in conjunction with Norwalk virus (NV), were spiked into surface water samples (n = 9) and groundwater samples (n = 6). Viral persistence was monitored at 25°C and 4°C by periodically analyzing virus infectivity (for all surrogate viruses) and nucleic acid (NA) for all tested viruses. FCV infectivity reduction rates were significantly higher than those of the other surrogate viruses. Infectivity reduction rates were significantly higher than NA reduction rates at 25°C (0.18 and 0.09 log10/day for FCV, 0.13 and 0.10 log10/day for PV, 0.12 and 0.06 log10/day for MS2, and 0.09 and 0.05 log10/day for MNV) but not significant at 4°C. According to a multiple linear regression model, the NV NA reduction rates (0.04 ± 0.01 log10/day) were not significantly different from the NA reduction rates of MS2 (0.05 ± 0.03 log10/day) and MNV (0.04 ± 0.03 log10/day) and were significantly different from those of FCV (0.08 ± 0.03 log10/day) and PV (0.09 ± 0.03 log10/day) at 25°C. In conclusion, MNV shows great promise as a human NoV surrogate due to its genetic similarity and environmental stability. FCV was much less stable and thus questionable as an adequate surrogate for human NoVs in surface water and groundwater.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, 615 N. Wolfe St., Room E6620, Baltimore, MD 21205-2103. Phone: (410) 614-5753. Fax: (410) 955-9334. E-mail: kschwab{at}jhsph.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 7 December 2007.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2008, p. 477-484, Vol. 74, No. 2
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02095-06
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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