Surveillance study of hepatitis A virus RNA on fig and date samples
Ingeborg L A Boxman1, Nathalie A J M te Loeke, Kyara Klunder
1Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, Zutphen, The Netherlands. lngeborg.boxman@vwa.nl
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|December 6, 2011
Abstract:
A total of 91 fig and 185 date samples were analyzed by reverse transcription (RT) real-time PCR for the presence of hepatitis A virus (HAV) RNA. Two batches of dates tested positive, and the HAV RNA detected was genotyped as IA. These findings warrant further development of methods applicable to food which is consumed untreated and is exported from countries in which HAV is endemic.
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