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publication name Hepatitis A virus related to foods
Authors Esraa Khattab,Fahim Shaltout and Islam Sabik
year 2021
keywords Disease and Infection Foods Personal Hygiene Properties of HAV Transmission
journal BENHA VETERINARY MEDICAL JOURNAL
volume 40
issue 1
pages 174-179
publisher faculty of veterinary medicine benha university
Local/International Local
Paper Link https://bvmj.journals.ekb.eg/article_182468_bd17a88f7a6f903a76e4cb87dece6d63.pdf
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Supplementary materials Fahim Aziz Eldin Mohamed Shaltout_BVMJ_Volume 40_Issue 1_Pages 174-179 (1).pdf
Abstract

Hepatitis disease is caused by hepatitis A virus (HAV), Positive single stranded RNA virus, belongs to the family of Picornavaridae. Hepatitis A virus infection occurs globally and is causing a public health concern, primarily in developing countries due to its persistent circulation in the environment. The improved sanitary condition and increase in awareness of personal hygiene have led to the marked reduction of HAV prevalence in industrialized countries during childhood and to a shift of the infection towards adulthood. HAV is an environmentally stable, that is primarily transmitted by the fecal-oral route, person to person contact or ingestion of contaminated food and drink. One of the main causes leading to HAV infection is epidemiologically linked to the consumption of raw or undercooked shellfish particularly oysters and clams. Due to their filter-feeding style, these shellfishes readily concentrate viruses from the surrounding water containing municipal sewage, and as a consequence pose a health threat to consumers. Therefore, development of detection techniques possessing the requisite sensitivity and specificity for the practical routine monitoring purposes is of great importance necessary for the protection of shellfishconsuming public. Nucleic acid-based method such as reverse transcription PCR has emerged as the popular method of choice in view of rapidity, accuracy, and sensitivity in contrary of the time-consuming conventional cell culture and hybridization techniques. The low concentration of viral genome present in the environmental sample which requires effective isolation and concentration of virions and the labor-extensive purification, removal of PCR inhibitors will be unfavorable.

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