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Oyster Contamination with Human Noroviruses Impacted by Urban Drainage and Seasonal Flooding in Vietnam.
Food and environmental virology - 1 Mar 2018
Nguyen Gia Thanh, Pu Jian, Miura Takayuki, Ito Hiroaki, Kazama Shinobu, Konta Yoshimitsu, Van Le An, Watanabe Toru
Abstract excerpt
This study investigated the level of norovirus contamination in oysters collected at a lagoon receiving urban drainage from Hue City for 17 months (August 2015-December 2016). We also investigated the genetic diversity of norovirus GI and GII in oyster and wastewater samples by using pyrosequencing to evaluate the effect of urban drainage on norovirus contamination of oysters. A total of 34 oyster samples were...
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