Genetic relatedness among hepatitis a virus strains associated with food-borne outbreaks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Vaughan, Gilberto ^a   Xia, Guoliang ^a   Forbi, Joseph C ^a   Purdy, Michael A ^a   Rossi, Lívia Maria Gonçalves ^a   Spradling, Philip R ^a   Khudyakov, Yury E ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FOOD POISONING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENE; VP1 GENE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84892430638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074546     Document Type: Article

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