Surveillance of enteric viruses in bivalves from Ecuador during the year 2021

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Food-related illnesses remain a major health concern worldwide, and more than one-fifth of them can be attributed to enteric viruses. Bivalve mollusks are recognized vectors due to their ability to concentrate pathogens and toxins present in the surrounding water of the environment in which they live, and because they are consumed raw or undercooked. In Ecuador, food contamination with...

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• Bivalvia
• Brazil
• Enterovirus
• Environmental Monitoring
• Genetic Variation
• Norovirus
• Shellfish
• Wetlands

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Literature Corpus work

8b2e6ea2-1242-5018-93ca-d346d5dcacc1

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-9296080/v1