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These techniques allow for a highly sensitive method to conduct air sampling for rhinovirus.
Figure 3shows the results from test of the effect of UV exposure on aerosolized rhinovirus.
A cationic phthalocyanine was reported to inhibit human rhinovirus type 5 (RV-5) infection [ 21 ] . Selected porphyrin derivatives inhibit specific viral targets including retroviral reverse transcriptase [ 22 23 24 25 26 ] and HIV-1 protease [ 27 ] .
Rhinoviruses have been associated with 40% to 65% of "common colds" studied by methods of virus culture [ 1 2 ] . With the use of reverse transcriptase - polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), rhinovirus has been shown to be associated with 53% of all colds throughout the year and up to 92% of colds during the autumn outbreak period [ 3 ] . Rhinviruses have been implicated in the exacerbation of asthma symptoms [ 4 ] and may even play a role in asthma related deaths [ 5 ] . Due to their role in the exacerbation of asthma symptoms, rhinoviruses are a major cause of pediatric hospitalizations [ 6 ] .
Two studies involving hepatitis A virus (single-stranded positive sense RNA genome) and rotavirus (double-stranded RNA genome), showed their PCR assays to be inhibited by UV inactivation of the viruses [ 28 29 ] . Conversely, Ma et al showed no effect of UV on a PCR assay when they irradiated poliovirus (single-stranded positive sense RNA genome) [ 30 ] . In this study, we present an extremely sensitive PCR based assay to detect airborne rhinovirus and demonstrate the effect of ultraviolet irradiation on the assay.
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