Molecular detection of multiple viral targets in untreated urban sewage from Greece

Virology Journal

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kokkinos, Petros A ^a   Ziros, Panos G ^a   Mpalasopoulou, Ggeliki ^a   Galanis, Alexis ^b   Vantarakis, Apostolos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BK VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; JC VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HEALTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

ADENOVIRIDAE; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEWAGE; URBAN HEALTH; VIRUSES;

EID: 79955135253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-8-195     Document Type: Article

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