Hepatitis a virus: State of the art

Food and Environmental Virology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 127-135

  Pintó, Rosa M ^a,b   Costafreda, M Isabel ^a   Pérez Rodriguez, Francisco J ^a   D'Andrea, Lucía ^a   Bosch, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Nuclear Receptors Group   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bivalves; Food borne outbreaks; Hepatitis A; Picornavirus; Shellfish

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; INACTIVATED VACCINE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANOREXIA; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; ASIA; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CODON USAGE; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYGIENE; JAUNDICE; MALAISE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PICORNAVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RIBOSOME; SHELLFISH; VACCINATION; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

BIVALVIA; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; MIRIDAE; PICORNAVIRIDAE;

EID: 77954757455     PISSN: 18670334     EISSN: 18670342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12560-010-9044-3     Document Type: Article

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