title: Isolation and genomic sequence of hepatitis A virus from mixed frozen berries in Italy.
abstract: Hepatitis A virus (HAV) was detected in two samples of mixed frozen berries linked to Italian hepatitis A outbreak in April and September 2013. Both viruses were fully sequenced by next-generation sequencing and the genomes clustered with HAV complete genomes of sub-genotype IA with nucleotide identities of 95-97%.
authors.affiliation: Sezione Diagnostica di Parma, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna (IZSLER), 43126, Parma, Italy, chiara.chiapponi@izsler.it.
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chiapponi
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pavoni
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bertasi
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Baioni
authors.forename: Erika
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Scaltriti
authors.forename: Edoardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chiesa
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cianti
authors.forename: Marina Nadia
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Losio
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pongolini
mesh_terms: D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis*; D005628:Frozen Foods / Q000821:virology*; D005638:Fruit / Q000821:virology*; D016679:Genome, Viral; D030041:Hepatitis A virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007558:Italy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny