Advances in understanding of hepatitis A virus as a food- and waterborne pathogen and progress with vaccine development

Viruses in Food and Water: Risks, Surveillance and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 349-361

  Pinto R M ^a   Bosch, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fine tuning translation kinetics; Hepatitis A virus; Quasispecies; Vaccine escape variants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904072124     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9780857098870.4.349     Document Type: Chapter

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