Concentration and diversity of noroviruses detected in Luxembourg wastewaters in 2008-2009

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5566-5568

  Skraber, Sylvain ^a   Langlet, Jérémie ^b   Kremer, Jacques R ^c   Mossong, Joël ^b   De Landtsheer, Sébastien ^c   Even, Jos ^b   Muller, Claude P ^c   Hoffmann, Lucien ^a   Cauchie, Henry Michel ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^b National Public Health Laboratory Luxembourg   (Luxembourg)

^c LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC DIVERSITY; LUXEMBOURG; NOROVIRUSES; WASTEWATER SAMPLES; WINTER SEASONS;

WASTEWATER;

VIRUS RNA;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIRUS; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUXEMBOURG; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; VIROLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; GENOTYPE; LUXEMBOURG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEWAGE;

LUXEMBOURG [BENELUX]; LUXEMBOURG [LUXEMBOURG (DST)]; LUXEMBOURG [LUXEMBOURG (NTN)];

EID: 79961065574     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00632-11     Document Type: Article

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