Quantification and genotyping of torque teno virus at a wastewater treatment plant in Japan

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 7434-7436

  Haramoto, Eiji ^a   Katayama, Hiroyuki ^b   Ohgaki, Shinichiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; VIRUSES; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

GENOTYPING; NESTED PCR; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VIRUS; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS TITRATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

DNA, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

TORQUE TENO VIRUS;

EID: 57149115355     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01605-08     Document Type: Article

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