Environmental surveillance. An additional/alternative approach for virological surveillance in Greece?

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1914-1922

  Kokkinos, Petros ^a   Ziros, Panos ^a   Meri, Danai ^a   Filippidou, Sevasti ^a   Kolla, Stella ^b   Galanis, Alexis ^b   Vantarakis, Apostolos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adenovirus; Environmental surveillance; Hepatitis a virus; Hepatitis e virus; Norovirus; Polyomavirus; Sewage

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; BIOSURVEILLANCE; BK VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; JC VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; RNA VIRUS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ADENOVIRIDAE; DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; NOROVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 79959822597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph8061914     Document Type: Article

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