Environmental surveillance of norovirus in Argentina revealed distinct viral diversity patterns, seasonality and spatio-temporal diffusion processes

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 437, Issue , 2012, Pages 262-269

  Fernández, María D Blanco ^a   Torres, Carolina ^a   Poma, Hugo R ^b   Riviello López, Gabriela ^c   Martínez, Laura C ^d   Cisterna, Daniel M ^e   Rajal, Verónica B ^b   Nates, Silvia V ^d   Mbayed, Viviana A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^c Laboratorio Químico   (Argentina)

^d FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^e Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Environmental virology; Fecal contamination; Norovirus

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES; DIFFUSION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION PROCESS; ENTERIC VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL VIROLOGY; FECAL CONTAMINATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOST RECENT COMMON ANCESTORS; NOROVIRUS; POPULATION SIZES; SEASONALITY; SEWAGE DISCHARGES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SUBSTITUTION RATES; VIRAL GENOME;

POPULATION STATISTICS; VIRUSES;

RIVERS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER POLLUTION; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEALTH HAZARD; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA SEQUENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREAM (RIVER); UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

ARGENTINA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RIVERS; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA];

NOROVIRUS;

EID: 84865574324     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.08.033     Document Type: Article

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