With around 2 billion cases each year, infectious gastroenteritis remains a worldwide health problem. A major cause of acute gastroenteritis is infection with enteric viruses, which often leads to hospitalization in children and immunocompromised people. We adapted and validated a gastrointestinal qPCR panel, which simultaneously detects the most common enteric viruses: Norovirus GI and GII, Rotavirus, Adenovirus, Sapovirus, A...

Nitrogen (N) loss rates were determined in permeable sediments of the Wadden Sea using a combination of stable N isotope incubation experiments and model simulation approaches during three seasons. Three different incubation methods that employed the isotope pairing technique were used: intact core incubations simulating either (1) diffusive or (2) advective transport conditions and (3) slurry incubations. N loss rates from co...