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Detection of Sapovirus in oysters |
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| Authors: | You Ueki Mika Shoji Yoko Okimura Yasuko Miyota Yoshifumi Masago Tomoichiro Oka Kazuhiko Katayama Naokazu Takeda Mamoru Noda Takayuki Miura Daisuke Sano Tatsuo Omura |
| Affiliation: | 1. Miyagi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment, Sendai;2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai;3. National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo;4. National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo;5. Division of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan |
| Abstract: | SaV sequences which are either genetically identical or similar were detected from oysters, feces from gastroenteritis patients, and domestic wastewater samples in geographically close areas. This is the first report of the detection of SaV in oysters which meet the legal requirements for raw consumption in Japan. |
| Keywords: | commercial oyster genotyping human sapovirus water contamination |