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Relative Abundance of Human Bocaviruses in Urban Sewage in Greater Cairo, Egypt.
Food and environmental virology - 1 Sept 2017
Hamza Hazem, Leifels Mats, Wilhelm Michael, Hamza Ibrahim Ahmed
Abstract excerpt
Human bocavirus (HBoV) is predominantly found in the respiratory tract infections and in the stool of patients with gastroenteritis symptoms. However, data on the prevalence of HBoV genotypes in environmental samples are limited. Here we addressed the prevalence of HBoV in sewage collected from three different wastewater treatment plants in Egypt. HBoV-1, HBoV-2, and HBoV-3 were detected, whereas none of the...
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