Detection of human food-borne and zoonotic viruses on irrigated, field-grown strawberries

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3763-3766

  Brassard, Julie ^a   Gagné, Marie Josée ^a   Généreux, Mylène ^b   Côté, Caroline ^b  

^a FOOD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b Research and Development Institute for the Agri Environment   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; IRRIGATION WATERS; ROTAVIRUSES;

IRRIGATION; VIRUSES; WATER SUPPLY;

FRUITS;

DETECTION METHOD; FRUIT; IRRIGATION; PATHOGEN; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAGARIA; GENETICS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ROTAVIRUS; VIROLOGY;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; ANIMALS; FRAGARIA; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

NOROVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS; SWINE HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 84861149620     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00251-12     Document Type: Article

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