Table 1 Comparison of data generated in this study and those published by other studies for HEV inactivation.
From: Thermal stability of hepatitis E virus assessed by a molecular biological approach
| Â | Â | Inactivation (tissue culture assay) | Reduction (RNase protection assay) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Temperature | Time | Huang et al., 1999[20] | Emerson et al., 2005[21] | Tanaka et al., 2007[19] | This study | |
| Â | Â | GT1 | GT1 | GT2 | GT3 | GT3 |
56°C | 15 min | ND | 95% | ND | ND | 74.07% |
56°C | 30 min | inactivated | 99% | ND | not inactivated | 99.99% |
56°C | 60 min | ND | 99% | not inactivated | ND | 99.90% |
60°C | 60 min | ND | 96% | 80% | ND | 99.94% |
95°C | 1 min | ND | ND | ND | inactivated | 99.98% |