| prevalence of enterovirus and hepatitis a virus in bivalve molluscs from galicia (nw spain): inadequacy of the eu standards of microbiological quality. | a study of the presence of hepatitis a virus (hav) and enterovirus (ev) in shellfish from the northwestern coast of spain, one of the most important mussel producers in the world, was carried out employing dot-blot hybridization and rt-pcr techniques. in addition, bacterial contamination of the samples was evaluated by escherichia coli (ec) counts, according to the european union (eu) standards of shellfish microbiological quality. shellfish samples included raft-cultured and wild mussels, as we ... | 2002 | 11929166 |