Recovery of adenoviruses from primate stools.

Samples were analyzed by culturing virus on relevant indicator cells or were subjected to a nested PCR for a highly conserved region of the adenoviral DNA polymerase gene. All samples that showed cytopathic effect when exposed to permissive cells were analyzed by a hexon-specific PCR to confirm the presence of adenovirus. CPE+ indicates the number rescued/total number analyzed (percentage recovery). PCR+ shows the results of the nested PCR with the number of PCR positive samples over the total number of samples tested as a denominator. (ND: not determined).