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Occurrence of pepper mild mottle virus in drinking water sources in Japan.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2013
Haramoto Eiji, Kitajima Masaaki, Kishida Naohiro, Konno Yoshiaki, Katayama Hiroyuki, Asami Mari, Akiba Michihiro
Abstract excerpt
Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) is a plant virus that has been recently proposed as a potential indicator of human fecal contamination of environmental waters; however, information on its geographical occurrence in surface water is still limited. We aimed to determine the seasonal and geographic occurrence of PMMoV in drinking water sources all over Japan. Between July 2008 and February 2011, 184 source water...
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