Monitoring the hepatitis A virus in urban wastewater from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 104-109

  Prado, Tatiana ^a   Fumian, Tulio M ^a   Miagostovich, Marize P ^a   Gaspar, Ana Maria C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Activated sludge process; Hepatitis A virus; Subgenotypes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; SPRING; SUMMER; URBAN AREA; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BRAZIL; DNA, VIRAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; URBAN HEALTH;

HEPATITIS A VIRUS;

EID: 84855531054     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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