Contamination of Clams with Human Norovirus and a Novel Hepatitis A Virus in Cameroon

Shellfish constitute an important protein source but may be contaminated by viruses from various origins. A study performed on clams collected in Cameroon showed a high prevalence of norovirus and hepatitis A virus. After sequencing, the hepatitis A virus showed similarities with the genotype V simi...

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Autores principales: Bonny, Patrice, Desdouits, Marion, Schaeffer, Julien, Garry, Pascal, Essia Ngang, Jean Justin, Le Guyader, Françoise S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7423853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32594312
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12560-020-09432-2
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spelling pubmed-74238532020-08-18 Contamination of Clams with Human Norovirus and a Novel Hepatitis A Virus in Cameroon Bonny, Patrice Desdouits, Marion Schaeffer, Julien Garry, Pascal Essia Ngang, Jean Justin Le Guyader, Françoise S. Food Environ Virol Letter to the Editor Shellfish constitute an important protein source but may be contaminated by viruses from various origins. A study performed on clams collected in Cameroon showed a high prevalence of norovirus and hepatitis A virus. After sequencing, the hepatitis A virus showed similarities with the genotype V simian strains. Springer US 2020-06-27 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7423853/ /pubmed/32594312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12560-020-09432-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12560-020-09432-2
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