Surveillance for rat hepatitis E in wastewater networks, Italy

Surveillance for rat hepatitis E in wastewater networks, Italy

ABSTRACT Rat hepevirus is an emerging zoonotic pathogen associated with human hepatitis and distantly related to the hepatitis E virus. By using broadly reactive primers for hepevirus, we detected viral RNA in 68/155 (43.9%) of sewage specimens collected from 14 wastewater treatment plants serving a...

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Main Authors: Andrea Palombieri, Federica Di Profio, Vittorio Sarchese, Paola Fruci, Elisabetta Suffredini, Vito Martella, Carolina Veneri, Giusy Bonanno Ferraro, Pamela Mancini, Giuseppina La Rosa, Barbara Di Martino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-12-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
viruses
zoonoses
rat hepatitis E virus
wastewater surveillance
Italy
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02675-23

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02675-23

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