Weekly Variation of Rotavirus A Concentrations in Sewage and Oysters in Japan, 2014-2016.
Erika ItoJian PuTakayuki MiuraShinobu KazamaMasateru NishiyamaHiroaki ItoYoshimitsu KontaNguyen Thanh GiaTatsuo OmuraToru WatanabePublished in: Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) (2019)
Concentrations of rotavirus A, in sewage and oysters collected weekly from September 2014 to April 2016 in Japan, were investigated using RT-qPCR; results showed up to 6.5 log10 copies/mL and 4.3 log10 copies/g of digestive tissue (DT) in sewage and oysters, respectively. No correlation was found between rotavirus concentration in sewage and oysters and cases of rotavirus-associated gastroenteritis.