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Detection of Hepatitis A Virus and Other Enteric Viruses in Shellfish Collected in the Gulf of Naples, Italy
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 16, Iss 14, p 2588 (2019), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 16, Issue 14
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2019.
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Abstract
- To assess the quality of shellfish harvest areas, bivalve mollusk samples from three coastal areas of the Campania region in Southwest Italy were evaluated for viruses over a three-year period (2015&ndash<br />2017). Screening of 289 samples from shellfish farms and other locations by qPCR and RT-qPCR identified hepatitis A virus (HAV<br />8.9%), norovirus GI (NoVGI<br />10.8%) and GII (NoVGII<br />39.7%), rotavirus (RV<br />9.0%), astrovirus (AsV<br />20.8%), sapovirus (SaV<br />18.8%), aichivirus-1 (AiV-1<br />5.6%), and adenovirus (AdV, 5.6%). Hepatitis E virus (HEV) was never detected. Sequence analysis identified HAV as genotype IA and AdV as type 41. This study demonstrates the presence of different enteric viruses within bivalve mollusks, highlighting the limitations of the current EU classification system for shellfish growing waters.
- Subjects :
- Norovirus GI
animal structures
Enteric viruse
viruses
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
lcsh:Medicine
Food Contamination
molecular methods
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
medicine.disease_cause
Article
Astrovirus
03 medical and health sciences
Hepatitis E virus
Rotavirus
Genotype
medicine
Animals
Shellfish
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
biology
030306 microbiology
lcsh:R
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
mollusks
virus diseases
Sapovirus
Molecular method
biology.organism_classification
Virology
Hepatitis a virus
Bivalvia
HAV
Italy
enteric viruses
Viruses
Environmental Monitoring
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16604601
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bf19acde6be987c677190c05c9d7fef8