Food-Borne Illness
Study Defines Best Way to Test Shellfish for Viral Contaminants
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 21st, 2000
"Viral outbreaks attributed to the consumption of contaminated shellfish have been clearly demonstrated," remarked I. Munianinmujika and colleagues at the University of Barcelona in Spain in a discussion of their study ("Viral contamination of shellfish: Evaluation of methods and analysis of bacteriophages and human viruses," Journal of Virological Methods, 2000;89(1-2):109-118).
This study evaluated 35 mussel samples...
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