Molecular detection of hepatitis E virus in sewage samples

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5870-5873

  La Rosa, Giuseppina ^a   Pourshaban, Manoochehr ^a   Iaconelli, Marcello ^a   Vennarucci, Valentina Spuri ^a   Muscillo, Michele ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; MOLECULAR DETECTION; RAW SEWAGE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

COMPUTER VIRUSES; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; VIRUSES; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

PRIMER DNA; VIRUS RNA;

GENOTYPE; MONITORING; PATHOGEN; SEWAGE; VIRUS; WASTE FACILITY; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEWAGE; VIROLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEWAGE; VIROLOGY;

ITALY;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 77956608690     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00336-10     Document Type: Article

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