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Bi- and Multi-directional Gene Transfer in the Natural Populations of Polyvalent Bacteriophages, and Their Host Species Spectrum Representing Foodborne Versus Other Human and/or Animal Pathogens Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2021-01-23 Ekaterine Gabashvili, Saba Kobakhidze, Stylianos Koulouris, Tobin Robinson, Mamuka Kotetishvili
Unraveling the trends of phage-host versus phage-phage coevolution is critical for avoiding possible undesirable outcomes from the use of phage preparations intended for therapeutic, food safety or environmental safety purposes. We aimed to investigate a phenomenon of intergeneric recombination and its trajectories across the natural populations of phages predominantly linked to foodborne pathogens
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Optimization and Implementation of the Virus Extraction Method for Hepatitis E Virus Detection from Raw Pork Liver Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Mitchie Y. Zhao, Dan Li
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) has been frequently detected from pork liver and liver products, which can usually cause self-limiting diseases in healthy adults, yet may result in fatality in immunosuppressed groups. Nevertheless, there is so far no standardized method for HEV detection available from pork liver and/or liver products. The present study aimed to optimize the virus extraction method of HEV
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Pepper Mild Mottle Virus as Indicator of Pollution: Assessment of Prevalence and Concentration in Different Water Environments in Italy Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 G. Bonanno Ferraro, E. Suffredini, P. Mancini, C. Veneri, M. Iaconelli, L. Bonadonna, M. T. Montagna, O. De Giglio, G. La Rosa
Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV), a plant pathogenic virus belonging to the family Virgoviridae, has been proposed as a potential viral indicator for human faecal pollution in aquatic environments. The present study investigated the occurrence, amount and diversity of PMMoV in water environments in Italy. A total of 254 water samples, collected between 2017 and 2019 from different types of water, were
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Coliphages as Indicators for the Microbial Quality of Treated Wastewater Effluents Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Abidelfatah Nasser, Sivan sasi, Yeshayahu Nitzan
Wastewater effluents are a reliable water source for non-potable water reuse including unrestricted crop irrigation in arid regions suffering from water scarcity. This study was performed to develop and optimize a procedure to concentrate coliphages from 100 L of treated effluent. Moreover, the reduction of coliphages by filtration and disinfection by either chlorine or UV was compared with that of
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Viral Interference as a Factor of False-Negative in the Infectious Adenovirus Detection Using Integrated Cell Culture-PCR with a BGM Cell Line Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Daisuke Sano, Ryosuke Watanabe, Wakana Oishi, Mohan Amarasiri, Masaaki Kitajima, Satoshi Okabe
This study investigated the influence of viral interference on the detection of enteric viruses using the integrated cell culture (ICC)-PCR with a BGM cell line. It was possible to detect 102 plaque-forming units (PFU)/flask of enterovirus 71 (EV71) in spite of the presence of 104 PFU/flask of adenovirus 40 (AdV40). Meanwhile, 104 PFU/flask of AdV40 was not detected in the presence of 102 PFU/flask
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Optimisation of a PMAxx ™ -RT-qPCR Assay and the Preceding Extraction Method to Selectively Detect Infectious Murine Norovirus Particles in Mussels Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2021-01-03 Ravo M. Razafimahefa, Louisa F. Ludwig-Begall, Françoise S. Le Guyader, Frédéric Farnir, Axel Mauroy, Etienne Thiry
Human noroviruses are a major cause for gastroenteritis outbreaks. Filter-feeding bivalve molluscs, which accumulate noroviruses in their digestive tissues, are a typical vector for human infection. RT-qPCR, the established method for human norovirus detection in food, does not allow discrimination between infectious and non-infectious viruses and can overestimate potentially infectious viral loads
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Detection of Human Adenovirus, Rotavirus, and Enterovirus in Tap Water and Their Association with the Overall Quality of Water in Karachi, Pakistan Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Muhammad Rashid, Muhammad Naseem Khan, Nusrat Jalbani
Drinking water supplies in the developing world often serve as a biosphere for various organisms. Viral gastroenteritis is a neglected area of research in Pakistan, there are no data for the prevalence of enteric viruses in drinking water of the largest city of Karachi. The present study aimed to provide a survey of the existence of enteric viruses: human adenovirus (HAdV), human enteroviruses (hEV)
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Persistent Detection of Cosavirus and Saffold Cardiovirus in Riachuelo River, Argentina Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Gabriela Riviello López, Leila Marina Martinez, Laura Freyre, María Cecilia Freire, Sara Vladimirsky, Alejandro Rabossi, Daniel Marcelo Cisterna
Cosaviruses (CoSV) and Saffold cardiovirus (SAFV) are novel members of the Picornaviridae family. The Matanza-Riachuelo river basin covers a total area of 2200 km2 with approximately 60 km long. Its last section is called Riachuelo River. The aim of this study was to describe the circulation of both picornaviruses and their relationship with the environmental situation of the Riachuelo River using
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Molecular Detection of Human Enteric Adenoviruses in Water Samples Collected from Lake Victoria Waters Along Homa Bay Town, Homa Bay County, Kenya Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Wasonga Michael Opere, Maingi John, Omwoyo Ombori
Lake Victoria is the primary source of water for millions of people in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. In recent years, population development around the lake has resulted in compromised sanitation standards resulting in increased faecal pollution of the lake. Consequently, this condition has increased the chances of waterborne enteric viruses, such as adenoviruses’ circulation in the community. Adenoviruses
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Rotavirus Surveillance in Tap Water, Recycled Water, and Sewage Sludge in Thailand: A Longitudinal Study, 2007–2018 Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-10-31 Leera Kittigul, Kannika Pombubpa
The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiological and molecular surveillance of rotaviruses in tap water, recycled water, and sewage sludge in Thailand from 2007 to 2018. Three hundred and seventy tap water, 202 recycled water, and 72 sewage sludge samples were collected and processed to detect the rotavirus VP7 gene using RT-nested PCR. Rotavirus G genotypes were identified by DNA sequencing
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Prevalence and Bayesian Phylogenetics of Enteroviruses Derived From Environmental Surveillance Around Polio Vaccine Switch Period in Shandong Province, China Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Chenxu Zhao, Xiaojuan Lin, Feng Ji, Ping Xiong, Yao Liu, Suting Wang, Peng Chen, Qing Xu, Li Zhang, Zexin Tao, Aiqiang Xu
We present the results of environmental surveillance for poliovirus (PV) and non-poliovirus (NPEV) around the switch from trivalent to bivalent oral polio-vaccine (OPV) which occurred in China in May 2016. Sewage samples were collected in Jinan and Linyi city from 2015 to 2017. Enterovirus (EV) isolation, VP1 amplification, Sanger sequencing, and phylogenetic analyses were performed. Among105 sewage
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Coronavirus Persistence on a Plastic Carrier Under Refrigeration Conditions and Its Reduction Using Wet Wiping Technique, with Respect to Food Safety Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Hana Malenovská
The global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic dictates that anti-contagion strategies should become matters of essential routine in everyday life. Fomite transference is one of the routes of transmission that has been considered for this virus. However, the risks associated with contaminated surfaces of food packaging kept in refrigerators have not yet been adequately assessed. In this study, a surrogate virus, Alphacoronavirus
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Prevalence and Genetic Characterization of Aichivirus in Environmental Waters in Thailand Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Kattareeya Kumthip, Pattara Khamrin, Arpaporn Yodmeeklin, Niwat Maneekarn
Aichivirus 1 (AiV-1) is an enteric virus that has been documented to be the causative agent of diarrhea in humans. It is transmitted by fecal–oral route, through person-to-person contact, consumption of contaminated food or water, or recreation of contaminated water. AiV-1 is highly prevalent in water samples and has been proposed as a potential indicator of fecal contamination in water reservoirs
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Molecular Characterization of Norovirus Circulating in Northwest Mexico During 2013–2014 Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Leticia Félix-Valenzuela, Alejandro Molina-Chavarria, Carmen Itzé Enríquez-Hernández, Enrique Bolado-Martínez, María de los Ángeles Durazo-Arvizu, Roberto Dórame-Castillo, Manuel Alberto Cano-Rangel, Verónica Mata-Haro
Norovirus (NoV) is an important etiological agent of diarrhea in children and adults. In Mexico, NoV screening is not routinely performed. NoV is highly infectious and is responsible for massive outbreaks due to the consumption of contaminated food. The study was a cross-sectional design. Samples of diarrheal stools were collected from (62) children and (38) adults with acute gastroenteritis during
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Thermal Inactivation of Hepatitis A Virus, Noroviruses, and Simian Rotavirus in Cows' Milk. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Waled M El-Senousy,Maha Shalaby,Azza M M Deeb,Ibrahim I Alhawary
Consumption of raw or unpasteurized milk is a risk for the consumers because indirect contaminations such as fecal-cross-contamination could occur and determine the presence of enteric viruses. In this study, milk was treated with several temperature and time combinations chosen by performing a preliminary experiment to evaluate the intervals needed to inactivate Hepatitis A virus (HAV) HM175 strain
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Antibodies Against Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) in European Moose and White-Tailed Deer in Finland. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Emil Loikkanen,Satu Oristo,Natalia Hämäläinen,Pikka Jokelainen,Tuija Kantala,Antti Sukura,Leena Maunula
The main animal reservoirs of zoonotic hepatitis E virus (HEV) are domestic pigs and wild boars, but HEV also infects cervids. In this study, we estimated the prevalence of HEV in Finnish cervid species that are commonly hunted for human consumption. We investigated sera from 342 European moose (Alces alces), 70 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), and 12 European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)
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Inactivation of hepatitis A virus and murine norovirus on surfaces of plastic, steel and raspberries using steam-ultrasound treatment. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-09-03 Sheikh Md Rajiuddin,Håkan Vigre,Hanieh Sadat Musavian,Simon Kohle,Niels Krebs,Tina Beck Hansen,Christophe Gantzer,Anna Charlotte Schultz
The leading causes of foodborne viral disease outbreaks are human norovirus and hepatitis A virus (HAV). Their environmental persistence enables contamination of kitchen surfaces and crops often consumed raw, such as berries. Many decontamination procedures are inefficient and unsuitable for surfaces of industrial kitchen environments and soft fruits. In this study, we investigated the efficiency of
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Effect of Sodium Chloride, Sodium Nitrite and Sodium Nitrate on the Infectivity of Hepatitis E Virus. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-08-27 Alexander Wolff,Taras Günther,Thiemo Albert,Reimar Johne
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection can cause acute and chronic hepatitis in humans. The zoonotic HEV genotype 3, which is highly prevalent in Europe, is mainly transmitted by consumption of raw meat and raw meat products produced from infected pigs or wild boars. High salt concentrations represent an important measure to preserve meat products and to inactivate foodborne pathogens. Here, an HEV preparation
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Energy Requirements for Loss of Viral Infectivity. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 Caroline E R Rowell,Hana M Dobrovolny
Outside the host, viruses will eventually lose their ability to infect cells due to conformational changes that occur to proteins on the viral capsid. In order to undergo a conformational change, these proteins require energy to activate the chemical reaction that leads to the conformational change. In this study, data from the literature is used to calculate the energy required for viral inactivation
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Environmental Integrants Affecting the Spreadability of SARS-CoV-12. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-07-28 Muhammad Torequl Islam
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Male-Specific and Somatic Coliphage Profiles from Major Aquaculture Areas in Republic of Korea. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-07-14 JaeYoon Lee,SungJun Park,Cheonghoon Lee,Kyuseon Cho,Yong Seok Jeong,Young-Mog Kim,Kwon-Sam Park,Jong Duck Choi,Yongsik Sin,GwangPyo Ko
Human and animal feces are important sources of various types of microbial contamination in water. Especially, enteric viruses, the major agents of waterborne infection, can attain long-term survival in water environments due to their strong resistance to various environmental factors including pH, salinity, and temperature. Coliphages are promising viral indicators for fecal contamination in water
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Reduction of Pathogenic and Indicator Viruses at a Drinking Water Treatment Plant in Southern Louisiana, USA. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-07-14 Sarmila Tandukar,Samendra P Sherchan,Eiji Haramoto
Monthly sampling was conducted at a drinking water treatment plant (DWTP) in Southern Louisiana, USA from March 2017 to February 2018 to determine the prevalence and reduction efficiency of pathogenic and indicator viruses. Water samples were collected from the DWTP at three different treatment stages (raw, secondary-treated, and chlorinated drinking water) and subjected to quantification of seven
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An Optimised Direct Lysis Method for Viral RNA Extraction and Detection of Foodborne Viruses on Fruits and Vegetables. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-07-10 Sheikh Md Rajiuddin,Tenna Jensen,Tina Beck Hansen,Anna Charlotte Schultz
Detection of norovirus (NoV) and hepatitis A virus (HAV) on fruits and vegetables using current standard methodologies can be inefficient. Method optimisation focussing on ease, rapidity and increased viral RNA recovery is needed for efficient reverse transcription (RT)-qPCR detection of viruses. A simple and quick direct lysis method for RNA extraction was optimised (method A) to achieve increased
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Reduction of Human Enteric and Indicator Viruses at a Wastewater Treatment Plant in Southern Louisiana, USA. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Sarmila Tandukar,Samendra P Sherchan,Eiji Haramoto
This study assessed wastewater quality through the quantification of four human enteric viruses and the applicability of pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) and tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) as indicators of viral reduction during wastewater treatment. Thirty-three samples were collected from three steps of a wastewater treatment plant in Southern Louisiana, USA for a year between March 2017 and February
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The Effectiveness of Activated Sludge Procedure and UV-C254 in Norovirus Inactivation in a Tunisian Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Chourouk Ibrahim,Salah Hammami,Nesserine Khelifi,Pierre Pothier,Abdennaceur Hassen
The molecular detection of Norovirus GI and Norovirus GII in the Tunisian industrial wastewater treatment plant of Charguia I was conducted to test the effectiveness of secondary biological treatment using the activated sludge procedure and the UV-C254 tertiary treatment radiation using a UV disinfection prototype to upgrade the quality of the purified wastewater. A total of 140 sewage samples were
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Contamination of Clams with Human Norovirus and a Novel Hepatitis A Virus in Cameroon. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-06-27 Patrice Bonny,Marion Desdouits,Julien Schaeffer,Pascal Garry,Jean Justin Essia Ngang,Françoise S Le Guyader
Shellfish constitute an important protein source but may be contaminated by viruses from various origins. A study performed on clams collected in Cameroon showed a high prevalence of norovirus and hepatitis A virus. After sequencing, the hepatitis A virus showed similarities with the genotype V simian strains.
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Evaluation of Viral Recovery Methodologies from Solid Waste Landfill Leachate. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Natália Maria Lanzarini,Rafaela Marinho Mata,Enrico Mendes Saggioro,Josino Costa Moreira,Camille Ferreira Mannarino,Marize Pereira Miagostovich
Leachate from solid waste landfill is a dark liquid of variable composition and possible source of contamination of groundwater and surface waters. This study aims to assess skimmed milk flocculation and ultracentrifugation as viral concentration methods associated to different nucleic acid extraction protocols in order to establish a methodology for virus recovery from sanitary landfill leachate.
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The Optimization of Methods for the Collection of Aerosolized Murine Norovirus. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-06-10 Corey Boles,Grant Brown,Jae Hong Park,Matthew Nonnenmann
Globally, norovirus is the most common gastroenteritis causing pathogen. Annually, norovirus causes 685 million cases of acute gastroenteritis and 200,000 deaths, worldwide. Recent evidence has suggested that norovirus can also be spread via aerosolization; however, an indoor generation source has yet to be determined. We optimized a sampling method for the collection of aerosolized norovirus using
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Quantitative Detection of Human Adenovirus and Human Rotavirus Group A in Wastewater and El-Rahawy Drainage Canal Influencing River Nile in the North of Giza, Egypt. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-05-09 Elmahdy M Elmahdy,Mohamed N F Shaheen,Neveen M Rizk,Amal Saad-Hussein
Environmental monitoring is critical in a developing country like Egypt where there is an insufficient framework for recording and tracking outbreaks. In this study, the prevalence of human adenovirus (HAdV), rotavirus group A (RVA) was determined in urban sewage, activated sludge, drainage water, drainage sediment, Nile water, and Nile sediment, using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)
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Survival of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in Goat Cheese and Milk. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-05-09 Zsuzsanna Rónai,László Egyed
Survival of tick-borne encephalitis virus was studied from pasteurized and unpasteurized goat milk and from salted/unsalted and spiced/unspiced cheese made from goat milk inoculated with low and high litres of infective virus. Both soft (63 °C, 30 min) and fast (72 °C, 15 s) pasteurization conditions destroyed viable virus particles. A small amount of infective virus could be detected only for 5‒10 days
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Discovery of Components Acting as the Obstacles in the Detection of Enteric Viruses from Berries. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-04-22 Mitchie Y Zhao,Dan Li
This study investigated the obstacles in detecting enteric viruses from berry fruits, which are on the one hand often associated with outbreaks of viral enteric disease, and on the other hand recognized as a challenging food matrix for molecular detection of enteric viruses. According to the ISO 15216 protocol, for soft fruit samples, virus extraction is by elution with agitation followed by precipitation
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Clinical and Environmental Surveillance of Rotavirus Common Genotypes Showed High Prevalence of Common P Genotypes in Egypt. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-04-11 Waled M El-Senousy,Amel S M Abu Senna,Nabil A Mohsen,Seham F Hasan,Nagwa M Sidkey
The objective of this study was to compare the prevalence of human rotavirus group A common G and P genotypes in human Egyptian stool specimens and raw sewage samples to determine the most common genotypes for future vaccine development. From 1026 stool specimens of children with acute diarrhea and using nested RT-PCR, 250 samples (24.37%) were positive for human rotavirus group A. Using multiplex
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Application of an Improved Micro-amount of Virion Enrichment Technique (MiVET) for the Detection of Avian Influenza A Virus in Spiked Chicken Meat Samples. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 Ryohei Makino,Yasuko Yamazaki,Konomu Nagao,Francis Victor Apego,Hirohisa Mekata,Wataru Yamazaki
Highly sensitive detection of pathogens is effective for screening meat during quarantine inspection and export. The “micro-amount of virion enrichment technique” (MiVET) was recently developed, which is a new method combining virus concentration with immunomagnetic beads and simple RNA extraction with sodium dodecyl benzenesulfonate (SDBS) for the specific and sensitive detection of avian influenza
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Detection and Characterization of Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3 in Wastewater and Urban Surface Waters in Germany. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-03-14 Sophia Beyer,Regine Szewzyk,Regina Gnirss,Reimar Johne,Hans-Christoph Selinka
In highly populated areas, environmental surveillance of wastewater and surface waters is a key factor to control the circulation of viruses and risks for public health. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 is considered as an emerging pathogen in industrialized countries. Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the prevalence of HEV in environmental waters in urban and suburban regions in
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Gastroenteric Viruses Detection in a Drinking Water Distribution-to-Consumption System in a Low-Income Community in Rio de Janeiro. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-03-09 Marize Pereira Miagostovich,Mônica Simões Rocha,Fabiane Bertoni Dos Reis,Marcelo Santos Sampaio,Renata de Saldanha da Gama Gracie Carrijo,Fabio Correia Malta,Janaína Rodrigues,Amanda Genuino,Matheus Ribeiro da Silva Assis,Tulio Machado Fumian,Paulo Rubens Guimarães Barrocas
The availability of drinking water is one of the main determinants of quality of life, disease prevention and the promotion of health. Viruses are important agents of waterborne diseases and have been described as important markers of human faecal contamination. This study aimed to investigate viruses’ presence as an indicator of drinking water quality in low-income communities in the Manguinhos area
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Virucidal Efficacy of Olanexidine Gluconate as a Hand Antiseptic Against Human Norovirus. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-03-02 Kaoru Imai,Akifumi Hagi,Yasuhide Inoue,Mohan Amarasiri,Daisuke Sano
Human noroviruses are the major cause of non-bacterial acute gastroenteritis worldwide. Since no therapeutic agent has been proven to prevent human norovirus infection yet, preventive healthcare interventions to block the infection routes play an important role in infection control. One of the possible infection routes of human noroviruses are through contaminated hands, but no hand antiseptics have
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Persistence of Lymphocystis Disease Virus (LCDV) in Seawater. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-02-21 Rocío Leiva-Rebollo,Alejandro M Labella,Estefanía J Valverde,Dolores Castro,Juan J Borrego
Lymphocystis disease virus (LCDV), the causative agent of lymphocystis disease (LCD), is a waterborne pathogen that uses the external surfaces, including the gills, as portals to gain access to fish host. However, there are no data on LCDV persistence in the aquatic environment. In this study, the persistence of LCDV in natural (raw), treated (autoclaved and filtered) and synthetic seawater held at
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Characterization of Polyurethane Foam Environmental Monitoring Tools for the Recovery and Release of Viruses. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-02-21 Sarah L Jones,Kristen E Gibson
The U.S. FDA Food Safety Modernization Act Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule emphasizes the importance of an effective environmental monitoring (EM) program. This study aims to characterize polyurethane foam (PUF) EM tools—currently used in the food industry for the recovery of bacteria from food contact surfaces—for their efficacy in the release and recovery of human enteric viruses. Two viruses
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Evaluation of New Components in Modified Scholten's Medium for the Detection of Somatic Coliphages. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-01-31 Daniel Toribio-Avedillo,Javier Méndez,Maite Muniesa,Anicet R Blanch
Enteric bacteriophages (somatic coliphages, F-specific coliphages or both together) are now recognized as useful viral indicators in water, shellfish, and biosolids and are being progressively included in national and international sanitary regulations. Among them, somatic coliphages have an advantage in that they usually outnumber F-RNA coliphages in water environments. Their enumeration using Modified
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Hydrophobic Organic Matter Promotes Coxsackievirus B5 Stabilization and Protection from Heat. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2020-01-07 P Waldman,F S Lucas,G Varrault,L Moulin,S Wurtzer
In urban rivers, many of which are used for drinking water production, viruses encounter a range of particulate, colloidal, and dissolved organic and inorganic compounds. To date, the impact of environmental organic matter on virus persistence in the environment has received little attention. In the present study, fresh water was fractioned to separate particulate natural organic matter from dissolved
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Detection, Quantification, and Microbial Risk Assessment of Group A Rotavirus in Rivers from Uruguay. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 Viviana Bortagaray,Viviane Girardi,Sonia Pou,Andrés Lizasoain,Luis Fernando López Tort,Fernando R Spilki,Rodney Colina,Matias Victoria
The aim of this study was to detect, quantify, and assess the risk of infection and illness for Group A Rotavirus (RVA) in the watersheds of the Santa Lucia and Uruguay rivers in Uruguay. Monthly sampling was carried out for one year in six sites in the watershed of the Santa Lucía River and four in the Uruguay River. All the collection sites are used for recreational activities. Viral concentration
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The First Detection of Human Bocavirus Species 2 and 3 in Raw Sewage and Mussels in South Africa. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-11-30 Oikwathaile Onosi,Nicole S Upfold,Michael D Jukes,Garry A Luke,Caroline Knox
Human bocavirus (HBoV) has a global distribution and is associated with respiratory and enteric infections, particularly in the paediatric population. In this study, raw sewage and mussel samples were analysed for the presence of HBoV using nested PCR with primers targeting the VP1/VP2 junction. Amplification and sequencing of the 382 bp region followed by phylogenetic analysis indicated the presence
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First Occurrence of Saffold Virus in Sewage and River Water Samples in Karaj, Iran. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-11-15 Mona Aminipour,Mostafa Ghaderi,Naser Harzandi
Saffold virus as a newly discovered virus, which seems to be related to acute gastroenteritis as with other enteric viruses and to human airway diseases in children belongs to Cardiovirus genus in picornaviridae family with 11 genotypes. Saffold virus initially was detected in America from infant stool sample. Saffold virus has also been detected in environmental water samples. Until now, two reports
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Modeling the Transport of Human Rotavirus and Norovirus in Standardized and in Natural Soil Matrix-Water Systems. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-11-12 P Gamazo,M Victoria,J F Schijven,E Alvareda,L F L Tort,J Ramos,L A Lizasoain,G Sapriza,M Castells,L Bessone,R Colina
We modeled Group A Rotavirus (RVA) and Norovirus genogroup II (GII NoV) transport experiments in standardized (crystal quartz sand and deionized water with adjusted pH and ionic strength) and natural soil matrix-water systems (MWS). On the one hand, in the standardized MWS, Rotavirus and Norovirus showed very similar breakthrough curves (BTCs), showing a removal rate of 2 and 1.7 log10, respectively
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Accumulation and Depuration Kinetics of Rotavirus in Mussels Experimentally Contaminated. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-11-06 Maria Grazia Amoroso,Antonio Luca Langellotti,Valeria Russo,Anna Martello,Marina Monini,Ilaria Di Bartolo,Giovanni Ianiro,Denise Di Concilio,Giorgio Galiero,Giovanna Fusco
Bivalve mollusks as filter-feeders concentrate in their digestive tissue microorganisms likely present in the harvesting water, thus becoming risky food especially if consumed raw or poorly cooked. To eliminate bacteria and viruses eventually accumulated, they must undergo a depuration process which efficacy on viruses is on debate. To better clarify the worth of the depuration process on virus elimination
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Feasibility of the Bag-Mediated Filtration System for Environmental Surveillance of Poliovirus in Kenya. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-11-02 Nicolette A Zhou,Christine S Fagnant-Sperati,Evans Komen,Benlick Mwangi,Johnstone Mukubi,James Nyangao,Joanne Hassan,Agnes Chepkurui,Caroline Maina,Walda B van Zyl,Peter N Matsapola,Marianne Wolfaardt,Fhatuwani B Ngwana,Stacey Jeffries-Miles,Angela Coulliette-Salmond,Silvia Peñaranda,Jeffry H Shirai,Alexandra L Kossik,Nicola K Beck,Robyn Wilmouth,David S Boyle,Cara C Burns,Maureen B Taylor,Peter Borus
The bag-mediated filtration system (BMFS) was developed to facilitate poliovirus (PV) environmental surveillance, a supplement to acute flaccid paralysis surveillance in PV eradication efforts. From April to September 2015, environmental samples were collected from four sites in Nairobi, Kenya, and processed using two collection/concentration methodologies: BMFS (> 3 L filtered) and grab sample (1
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Hepatitis E Virus Detected in Pork Products. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2018-08-22 Xianhui Hao,Wentao Cao,Jianwen Situ,Yongqin Zhao,Fen Huang,Wenhai Yu
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Correction to: Genetic Diversity Among Genogroup II Noroviruses and Progressive Emergence of GII.17 in Wastewaters in Italy (2011-2016) Revealed by Next-Generation and Sanger Sequencing. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 E Suffredini,M Iaconelli,M Equestre,B Valdazo-González,A R Ciccaglione,C Marcantonio,S Della Libera,F Bignami,G La Rosa
The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The presentation of Table 1 was incorrect. The corrected table is given below. The original article has been corrected.
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Erratum to: The Presence of Norovirus and Adenovirus on Environmental Surfaces in Relation to the Hygienic Level in Food Service Operations Associated with a Suspected Gastroenteritis Outbreak. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2017-05-13 Leena Maunula,M Rönnqvist,R Åberg,J Lunden,M Nevas
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Erratum to: Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 4 Sequences Detected in Sewage from Treatment Plants of China. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2017-03-09 Heng Li,Wei Li,Ruiping She,Liang Yu,Qiaoxing Wu,Jingling Yang,Fengjiao Hu,Majid Hussain Soomro,Ruihan Shi,Wenzhuo Hao,Yue Zhao,Jingjing Mao
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Erratum to: Hepatitis E Virus in Farmed Rabbits, Wild Rabbits and Petting Farm Rabbits in the Netherlands. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2016-11-04 Sara A Burt,Jorg Veltman,Renate Hakze-van der Honing,Heike Schmitt,Wim H M van der Poel
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End of Year 2015 in Polio Endemic Pakistan: Yet Another Beginning Towards End. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2016-02-14 Javaria Qazi
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Secretor Status is Associated with Susceptibility to Disease in a Large GII.6 Norovirus Foodborne Outbreak. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-10-29 Sumit Sharma,Marie Hagbom,Beatrice Carlsson,Joanna Nederby Öhd,Mona Insulander,Ronnie Eriksson,Magnus Simonsson,Micael Widerström,Johan Nordgren
Norovirus is commonly associated with food and waterborne outbreaks. Genetic susceptibility to norovirus is largely dependent on presence of histo-blood group antigens (HBGA), specifically ABO, secretor, and Lewis phenotypes. The aim of the study was to determine the association between HBGAs to norovirus susceptibility during a large norovirus foodborne outbreak linked to genotype GII.6 in an office-based
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Relationship Between Inactivation and Genome Damage of Human Enteroviruses Upon Treatment by UV254, Free Chlorine, and Ozone. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-10-29 Suzanne Young,Jason Torrey,Virginie Bachmann,Tamar Kohn
Quantitative PCR (qPCR) is a convenient tool for monitoring virus concentrations in water and wastewater treatment trains, though it only informs about virus presence, but not infectivity. This limitation can be overcome if the relationship between infectivity loss and genome decay induced by a given disinfectant is known. Here, we performed inactivation experiments using two human enteroviruses, Coxsackievirus
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Molecular Detection of Human Salivirus in Italy Through Monitoring of Urban Sewages. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-10-22 Pamela Mancini,Giusy Bonanno Ferraro,Elisabetta Suffredini,Carolina Veneri,Marcello Iaconelli,Teresa Vicenza,Giuseppina La Rosa
Salivirus (SalV) is a newly discovered virus associated to acute gastroenteritis in humans. In Italy, its prevalence and genetic diversity is unknown. To reduce this knowledge gap, 124 sewage samples collected throughout the country were analyzed for SalV by two nested RT-PCRs targeting the 5′UTR and the 3D regions and by real-time RT-qPCR. Virus RNA was detected in 37 (29.8%) samples; of these, 24
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No Evidence of Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Farmed Deer in Germany. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-10-17 Eva Trojnar,Bernd Kästner,Reimar Johne
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a zoonotic agent, which is mainly transmitted by consumption of undercooked meat products originating from infected animals. Domestic pigs and wild boars are the major animal reservoirs, but HEV infections have been also repeatedly described in wild deer species. However, farmed deer has been only sparsely investigated so far. Here, 108 blood and 106 liver samples from fallow
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Antiviral Activities of Hibiscus sabdariffa L. Tea Extract Against Human Influenza A Virus Rely Largely on Acidic pH but Partially on a Low-pH-Independent Mechanism. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-10-16 Yohei Takeda,Yuko Okuyama,Hiroto Nakano,Yasunori Yaoita,Koich Machida,Haruko Ogawa,Kunitoshi Imai
Influenza A virus (IAV) infection is perennially one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Effective therapy and vaccination are needed to control viral expansion. However, current anti-IAV drugs risk inducing drug-resistant virus emergence. Although intranasal administration of whole inactivated virus vaccine can induce efficient protective immunity, formalin and β-propiolactone are the currently
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Field Performance of Two Methods for Detection of Poliovirus in Wastewater Samples, Mexico 2016-2017. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-09-30 Concepción F Estívariz,Elda E Pérez-Sánchez,Anita Bahena,Cara C Burns,Howard E Gary,Herlinda García-Lozano,Gloria Rey-Benito,Silvia Peñaranda,Katy V Castillo-Montufar,Raúl S Nava-Acosta,John Scott Meschke,M Steven Oberste,Irma Lopez-Martínez,José A Díaz-Quiñonez
To enhance our ability to monitor poliovirus circulation and certify eradication, we evaluated the performance of the bag-mediated filtration system (BMFS) against the two-phase separation (TPS) method for concentrating wastewater samples for poliovirus detection. Sequential samples were collected at two sites in Mexico; one L was collected by grab and ~ 5 L were collected and filtered in situ with
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Involvement of Egyptian Foods in Foodborne Viral Illnesses: The Burden on Public Health and Related Environmental Risk Factors: An Overview. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-09-27 Hamada Aboubakr,Sagar Goyal
Foodborne viral diseases are a major public health threat and pose a huge burden on the economies of both developed and developing countries. Enteric viruses are the causative agents of most foodborne illnesses and outbreaks. Egypt is classified by WHO among the regions with intermediate to high endemicity for various enteric viruses. This is manifested by the high prevalence rates of different enteric
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Airborne Transmission of Influenza Virus in a Hospital of Qinhuangdao During 2017-2018 Flu Season. Food Environ. Virol. (IF 2.819) Pub Date : 2019-09-23 Xin Zhao,Weizhong Nie,Chunya Zhou,Ming Cheng,Chun Wang,Yongjie Liu,Jinke Li,Yunkai Qian,Xuezheng Ma,Liping Zhang,Lili Li,Kongxin Hu
The 2017–2018 flu season is considered to be one of the most severe, with numerous influenza outbreaks worldwide. In an infectious disease hospital of Qinhuangdao, air samples were collected daily from outpatient hall, clinical laboratory, fever clinic, children's ward (Children's Ward I/Children's Ward II), and adult ward during 23–29 January 2018 (peak flu activity) and 9–15 April 2018 (low flu activity)