Norovirus genotypes implicated in two oyster-related illness outbreaks in Ireland

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2096-2104

  Rajko Nenow, P ^a   Keaveney, S ^a   Flannery, J ^a   McIntyre, A ^a   Dore W ^a  

^a MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Molecular epidemiology; norovirus; outbreaks; oysters; sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIVALVE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IRELAND; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OYSTER; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; EPIDEMIC; FOOD POISONING; NOROVIRUS GENOTYPE II; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; WINTER;

ANIMALS; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NOROVIRUS; OSTREIDAE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84906302919     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813003014     Document Type: Article

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