Surveillance study of hepatitis A virus RNA on fig and date samples

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 878-879

  Boxman, Ingeborg L A ^a   te Loeke, Nathalie A J M ^a   Klunder, Kyara ^a   Hägele, Geke ^a   Jansen, Claudia C C ^a  

^a Voedsel en Waren Autoriteit Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; REAL-TIME PCR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION;

RNA; VIRUSES;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

VIRUS RNA;

ENDEMISM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; VIRUS;

ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FICUS; FOOD CONTROL; FRUIT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

ARECACEAE; FICUS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HEPATITIS A VIRUS;

EID: 84856207903     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06574-11     Document Type: Article

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