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Group A rotavirus in sewage samples from Barcelona and Cairo: emergence of unusual genotypes.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jul 2003
Villena Cristina, El-Senousy Waled Morsy, Abad F Xavier, Pintó Rosa M, Bosch Albert
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The presence of rotavirus strains in sewage samples from Cairo, Egypt (November 1998 to October 1999), and Barcelona, Spain (November 1998 to December 2002), was investigated by using a generic molecular detection method based on amplification of a VP6 gene fragment. Overall, 85.7 and 66.9% of the sewage samples from Cairo and Barcelona, respectively, were positive. Positive samples were characterized further,...
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