Chronic or accidental exposure of oysters to norovirus: Is there any difference in contamination?

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 505-509

  Ventrone, Iole ^a,b   Schaeffer, Julien ^a   Ollivier, Joanna ^a   Parnaudeau, Sylvain ^a   Pepe, Tiziana ^b   Le Pendu, Jacques ^c   Le Guyader, Françoise S ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; NOROVIRUS; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 84875536607     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-12-296     Document Type: Article

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