The use of human sewage screening for community surveillance of hepatitis E virus in the UK

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 915-918

  Smith, Donald B ^a   Paddy, Julius O ^b   Simmonds, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Detection; Epidemiology; Variation

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; SEWAGE; UNITED KINGDOM; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SCREENING; PROCEDURES; SCOTLAND; VIROLOGY;

SEWAGE;

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCOTLAND; SEWAGE;

EID: 84959326154     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.24403     Document Type: Article

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