Norovirus distribution within an estuarine environment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5474-5480

  Gentry, Jennifer ^a,d   Vinjé, Jan ^b   Guadagnoli, Dominic ^c   Lipp, Erin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^c Coastal Resources Division ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEORGIA; HIGH CONCENTRATION; WATER ENVIRONMENTS; WATER SAMPLES;

ESTUARIES;

OCEAN HABITATS;

VIRUS RNA;

BIVALVE; DISEASE VECTOR; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HARVESTING; HOMINID; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEAFOOD; SHELLFISH CULTURE; VIRUS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; ESTUARY; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; OYSTER; PLANKTON; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SAMPLING; VIRUS CONCENTRATION; VIRUS GENOME; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; GENOTYPE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; NOROVIRUS; OSTREIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; ZOOPLANKTON;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

NOROVIRUS; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 69449106637     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00111-09     Document Type: Article

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