TY - JOUR
T1 - Identification of Enteric Viruses in Foods from Mexico City
AU - Parada-Fabián, José Carlos
AU - Juárez-García, Patricia
AU - Natividad-Bonifacio, Iván
AU - Vázquez-Salinas, Carlos
AU - Quiñones-Ramírez, Elsa Irma
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - Foodborne viruses are a common and, probably, the most under-recognized cause of outbreaks of gastroenteritis. Among the main foods involved in the transmission of human enteric viruses are mollusks, and fruits and vegetables irrigated with wastewater and/or washed with non-potable water or contaminated by contact with surfaces or hands of the infected personnel during its preparation. In this study, 134 food samples were analyzed for the detection of Norovirus, Rotavirus, and Hepatitis A virus (HAV) by amplification of conserved regions of these viruses. From the 134 analyzed samples, 14 were positive for HAV, 6 for Norovirus, and 11 for Rotavirus. This is the first report in Mexico where emphasis is given to the presence of HAV and Norovirus on perishable foods and food from fisheries, as well as Rotavirus on frozen vegetables, confirming the role of vegetables and bivalve mollusks as transmitting vehicles of enteric viruses.
AB - Foodborne viruses are a common and, probably, the most under-recognized cause of outbreaks of gastroenteritis. Among the main foods involved in the transmission of human enteric viruses are mollusks, and fruits and vegetables irrigated with wastewater and/or washed with non-potable water or contaminated by contact with surfaces or hands of the infected personnel during its preparation. In this study, 134 food samples were analyzed for the detection of Norovirus, Rotavirus, and Hepatitis A virus (HAV) by amplification of conserved regions of these viruses. From the 134 analyzed samples, 14 were positive for HAV, 6 for Norovirus, and 11 for Rotavirus. This is the first report in Mexico where emphasis is given to the presence of HAV and Norovirus on perishable foods and food from fisheries, as well as Rotavirus on frozen vegetables, confirming the role of vegetables and bivalve mollusks as transmitting vehicles of enteric viruses.
KW - Enteric virus
KW - Food samples
KW - Mollusks
KW - Vegetables
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84970004053&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12560-016-9244-6
DO - 10.1007/s12560-016-9244-6
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 27221088
AN - SCOPUS:84970004053
SN - 1867-0334
VL - 8
SP - 215
EP - 220
JO - Food and Environmental Virology
JF - Food and Environmental Virology
IS - 3
ER -