A unique HAV strain circulated in patients with acute HAV infection with different risk exposures in Tuscany, Italy

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 142-147

  Taffon, Stefania ^a   Bidini, Gabriella ^b   Vichi, Francesca ^c   Corti, Giampaolo ^d   Genovese, Domenico ^a   Kondili, Loreta A ^a   Bindi, Rita ^b   Armellini, Fulvio ^b   Leoncini, Francesco ^d   Bartoloni, Alessandro ^d   Mazzotta, Francesco ^c   Rapicetta, Maria ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b USL 8   (Italy)

^c SANTA MARIA ANNUNZIATA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

HAV; Infection; Outbreak; Phylogenetic tree; Sequence

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 78951474987     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2010.10.011     Document Type: Article

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