Survey of Canadian retail pork chops and pork livers for detection of hepatitis E virus, norovirus, and rotavirus using real time RT-PCR

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 185, Issue , 2014, Pages 33-40

  Wilhelm, Barbara ^a   Leblanc, Danielle ^b   Houde, Alain ^b   Brassard, Julie ^b   Gagné, Marie Josée ^b   Plante, Daniel ^c   Bellon Gagnon, Pascale ^c   Jones, Tineke H ^d   Muehlhauser, Victoria ^d   Janecko, Nicol ^e,f   Avery, Brent ^e   Rajić, Andrijana ^f   McEwen, Scott A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b FOOD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^d LACOMBE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hepatitis E virus; Norovirus; Pork chops; Pork liver; Retail; Rotavirus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FOOD SAFETY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PORK; PORK CHOP; PORK LIVER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NOROVIRUS; PORK CHOPS; PORK LIVER; RETAIL; ROTAVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CANADA; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MEAT; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; ROTAVIRUS; SWINE; VIRAL LOAD; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84902349965     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: 18793460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2014.05.006     Document Type: Article

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