Outbreak of viral gastroenteritis due to sewage-contaminated drinking water

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 123-126

  Hafliger D ^a   Hubner Ph ^a   Luthy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Enterovirus; Gastroenteritis; Outbreak; RT PCR; Sewage; Small round structured virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERITIS; ENTEROVIRUS; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NORWALK GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SWINE VESICULAR EXANTHEMA VIRUS; SWITZERLAND; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEWAGE; SWITZERLAND; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

ENTEROVIRUS; NARCISSUS LATENT VIRUS; NOROVIRUS; SMALL ROUND STRUCTURED VIRUS; SOUTHAMPTON VIRUS; SUS SCROFA; SWINE VESICULAR DISEASE VIRUS;

EID: 0343049200     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1605(99)00176-2     Document Type: Article

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