Norovirus monitoring in bivalve molluscs harvested and commercialized in Southern Italy

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 976-981

  Pepe, Tiziana ^a   Ventrone, Iole ^a   Suffredini, Elisabetta ^b   Ceruso, Marina ^a   Croci, Luciana ^b   Anastasio, Aniello ^a   Cortesi, Maria Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; NOROVIRUS; PRODUCT SAFETY; SHELLFISH; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; ITALY; NOROVIRUS; SHELLFISH;

BIVALVIA; GREAT ISLAND VIRUS; MOLLUSCA; NOROVIRUS;

EID: 84860819352     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-11-424     Document Type: Article

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