Monitoring the Hepatitis A Virus in Oyster from Korea - Advances in Microbiology

AiM > Vol.5 No.13, December 2015

Advances in Microbiology

Volume 5, Issue 13 (December 2015)

ISSN Print: 2165-3402 ISSN Online: 2165-3410

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Monitoring the Hepatitis A Virus in Oyster from Korea ()

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DOI: 10.4236/aim.2015.513087 4,078 Downloads 5,260 Views Citations

Author(s)

Sanghun Park¹, Hyowon Jeong¹, Jihun Jung¹, Kyungsik Kim¹, Sungkyu Park¹, Musang Kim¹, Yeonsun Kim², Younghee Oh¹, Kweon Jung¹

Affiliation(s)

¹Infectious Disease Research Division, Seoul Metropolitan Government Research Institute of Public Health and Environment, Gwacheon-si, Korea.
²Department of Public Health, Graduate School Dankook University, Seoul, Korea.

ABSTRACT

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) causes many cases of oyster- or clam-associated gastroenteritis in various countries. HAV was detected on oyster by RT-PCR in 19.6% (11/56) in Korea. The percentages of HAV-positive samples in 2011 and 2012 were 27.6% and 11.1%, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that several nucleotide sequences highly similar to those of HAVs isolated in this study. Phylogenetic analysis of the coding regions of the viral protein VP4/VP2 revealed that all amplicons were classi?ed into IA genogroup. It will provide useful data that aids in our understanding circulating HAVs and may contribute to future control.

KEYWORDS

HAV, Oyster, IA Genogroup

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Park, S. , Jeong, H. , Jung, J. , Kim, K. , Park, S. , Kim, M. , Kim, Y. , Oh, Y. and Jung, K. (2015) Monitoring the Hepatitis A Virus in Oyster from Korea. Advances in Microbiology, 5, 825-831. doi: 10.4236/aim.2015.513087.

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