Viral pollution in the environment and in shellfish: Human adenovirus detection by PCR as an index of human viruses

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3376-3382

  Pina, Sonia ^a   Puig, Montserrat ^a   Lucena, Francisco ^a   Jofre, Joan ^a   Girones, Rosina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; SHELLFISH; VIRUS DETECTION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALIA; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BUBALUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DNA VIRUSES; ENTEROVIRUS; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; NEGIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031664503     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3376-3382.1998     Document Type: Article

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