Hepatitis A virus detection in food: Current and future prospects

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-5

  Sanchez G ^a,b   Bosch, A ^a   Pinto R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diagnostic; Epidemiology; Genotype; Hepatitis A virus (HAV); Real time; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; DIAGNOSTIC; FUTURE PROSPECTS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; REAL- TIME; RT-PCR; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

DISEASES; FOOD PRODUCTS; VIRUSES;

DETECTION METHOD; FOOD QUALITY; HEPATITIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEPATITIS A; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION;

HEPATITIS A VIRUS;

EID: 34347360835     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2007.02140.x     Document Type: Article

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