Rotavirus genotypes in sewage treatment plants and in children hospitalized with acute diarrhea in Italy in 2010 and 2011

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 241-249

  Ruggeri, Franco M ^a   Bonomo, Paolo ^a   Ianiro, Giovanni ^a   Battistone, Andrea ^a   Delogu, Roberto ^a   Germinario, Cinzia ^b,c   Chironna, Maria ^b,c   Triassi, Maria ^d   Campagnuolo, Rosalba ^e   Cicala, Antonella ^f   Giammanco, Giovanni M ^g   Castiglia, Paolo ^h   Serra, Caterina ^h   Gaggioli, Andrea ^a   Fiore, Lucia ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b Industrial Research and Technological Innovation Department   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e SANTOBONO PAUSILIPON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f AMAP SpA Impianto di depurazione Acqua dei Corsari   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; PEDIATRICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; DIFFERENT PROPORTIONS; GENERAL POPULATION; ITALIAN POPULATION; PEDIATRIC PATIENTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SURVEILLANCE NETWORKS; URBAN WASTEWATER;

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

CHILD HEALTH; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PATHOGEN; SEWAGE; SURVIVORSHIP; URBAN POLLUTION; VIRAL DISEASE; WATER QUALITY;

ITALY;

ROTAVIRUS;

CAPSID PROTEIN; SEWAGE; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA; VP4 PROTEIN, ROTAVIRUS; VP7 PROTEIN, ROTAVIRUS;

CHILD; CITY; CLASSIFICATION; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SEWAGE; VIROLOGY;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHILD; CITIES; DIARRHEA; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE;

EID: 84917691303     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02695-14     Document Type: Article

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