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Detecting the presence of infectious hepatitis A virus in molluscs positive to RT-nested-PCR
6 Nov 2001
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AIMS: The objective of this study was to determine the presence of infectious hepatitis A virus (HAV) in molluscs naturally contaminated with viral HAV-RNA. METHODS AND RESULTS: One hundred and forty-two mollusc samples were analysed for the presence of viral HAV-RNA using RT-nested-PCR; positive samples were then analysed with an integrated method, cell-culture RT-PCR, to detect infectious virus. Viral HAV-RNA...
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