Molecular characterization of hepatitis a virus isolates from environmental and clinical samples in Greece

Virology Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kokkinos, Petros ^a   Ziros, Panos ^a   Filippidou, Sevasti ^a   Mpampounakis, Ioannis ^a   Vantarakis, Apostolos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TYPING; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

HEPATITIS A VIRUS;

VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 77956569250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-7-235     Document Type: Article

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