Surveillance of hepatitis A virus in urban sewages and comparison with cases notified in the course of an outbreak, Italy 2013

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  La Rosa, Giuseppina ^a   Della Libera, Simonetta ^a   Iaconelli, Marcello ^a   Ciccaglione, Anna R ^a   Bruni, Roberto ^a   Taffon, Stefania ^a   Equestre, Michele ^a   Alfonsi, Valeria ^a   Rizzo, Caterina ^a   Tosti, Maria E ^a   Chironna, Maria ^b   Romanò, Luisa ^c   Zanetti, Alessandro R ^c   Muscillo, Michele ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical; Environmental; Genotyping; Hepatitis A; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; ITALY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING; WINTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TYPING; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEWAGE; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904781805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-419     Document Type: Article

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