Nucleotide correlation between HAV isolates from human patients and environmental samples

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 8-12

  Divizia, Maurizio ^a,c   Gabrieli, Rosanna ^a   Macaluso, Alessia ^a   Bagnato, Barbara ^a   Palombi, Leonardo ^a   Buonomo, Ersilia ^a   Cenko, Fabian ^b   Leno, Luljeta ^b   Bino, Silva ^b   Basha, Anila ^b   Panà, Augusto ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Italy)

^b Public Health Institute   (Albania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Genotype; HAV outbreak

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DRINKING WATER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROLOGY; SEWAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALBANIA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FRESH WATER; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; MAMASTROVIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; ROTAVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEWAGE; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

ASTROVIRIDAE; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 9644264069     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20229     Document Type: Article

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