Hepatitis A virus detection in food: current and future prospects.
Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is responsible for around half of the total number of hepatitis infections diagnosed worldwide. HAV infection is mainly propagated via the faecal-oral route and as a consequence of globalisation, transnational outbreaks of foodborne infections are reported with increasing frequency. Molecular procedures are now available and should be employed for the direct surveillance of HAV in food and environmental samples.
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Enteric Virus Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
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D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis; D005516:Food Microbiology; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology; D030041:Hepatitis A virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D014871:Water Microbiology; D014876:Water Pollution / Q000032:analysis