Frequency of HEV contamination in sewerage waters in Pakistan

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 842-845

  Ahmad, Tahir ^a   Waheed, Yasir ^a   Tahir, Sadia ^a   Safi, Sher Zaman ^a   Fatima, Kaneez ^a   Afzal, Muhammad Sohail ^a   Farooqi, Zia ur Rehman ^a   Qadri, Ishtiaq ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Detection method; HEV; PCR; Sewerage water

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAKISTAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 78650792901     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.612     Document Type: Article

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