Norovirus genotypes present in oysters and in effluent from a wastewater treatment plant during the seasonal peak of infections in ireland in 2010

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2578-2587

  Rajko Nenow, Paulina ^a   Waters, Allison ^b   Keaveney, Sinéad ^a   Flannery, John ^a   Tuite, Gráinne ^b   Coughlan, Suzie ^b   O'Flaherty, Vincent ^c   Doré, William ^a  

^a MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; INFLUENT WASTEWATERS; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; PEAK PERIOD; RECOMBINANT STRAINS; SEASONAL PEAKS; TREATED EFFLUENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

GENES; MOLLUSCS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SHELLFISH; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EFFLUENTS;

CAPSID PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; GENOTYPE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; OYSTER CULTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; SAMPLING; VIRAL DISEASE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IRELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NOROVIRUS; OYSTER; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIROLOGY; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALS; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CAPSID PROTEINS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IRELAND; NOROVIRUS; OSTREIDAE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

IRELAND;

MIRIDAE; NOROVIRUS; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 84876185306     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03557-12     Document Type: Article

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