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Xavier Abad

Other name: FX Abad
Head of High Biocontainement Unit IRTA-CReSA
Verified email at irta.cat
Cited by 2733

Survival of enteric viruses on environmental fomites

FX Abad, RM Pinto, A Bosch - Applied and environmental …, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
FX Abad was supported by an FI fellowship from Generalitat de Catalunya. … Bosch, A., JM
Diez, and FX Abad. 1993. Disinfection of human enteric viruses in water by copper, silver and …

Potential role of fomites in the vehicular transmission of human astroviruses

FX Abad, C Villena, S Guix, S Caballero… - Applied and …, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol
FX Abad is the recipient of a PQS contract from the Generalitat de Catalunya. This work
was supported in part by grant 1997SGR 00224 from the Generalitat de Catalunya. …

Astrovirus survival in drinking water

FX Abad, RM Pintó, C Villena, R Gajardo… - Applied and …, 1997 - Am Soc Microbiol
A method based on infection of CaCo-2 cultured cell monolayers (CC) and reverse
transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) was developed for the specific detection of infectious astrovirus. The …

Disinfection of human enteric viruses in water by copper and silver in combination with low levels of chlorine

FX Abad, RM Pinto, JM Diez… - Applied and Environmental …, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
The efficacy of copper and silver ions, in combination with low levels of free chlorine (FC),
was evaluated for the disinfection of hepatitis A virus (HAV), human rotavirus (HRV), human …

Survival and transport of enteric viruses in the environment

A Bosch, RM Pintó, FX Abad - Viruses in foods, 2006 - Springer
Environmental virology may be defined as the study of viruses that can be transmitted through
various environments (water, sewage, soil, air, or surfaces) or food and persist enough in …

Group A rotavirus in sewage samples from Barcelona and Cairo: emergence of unusual genotypes

C Villena, WM El-Senousy, FX Abad… - Applied and …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
The presence of rotavirus strains in sewage samples from Cairo, Egypt (November 1998 to
October 1999), and Barcelona, Spain (November 1998 to December 2002), was investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental infection with H1N1 European swine influenza virus protects pigs from an infection with the 2009 pandemic H1N1 human influenza virus

…, M Pérez-Maíllo, JI Núñez, FX Abad… - Veterinary …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The recent pandemic caused by human influenza virus A (H1N1) 2009 contains ancestral
gene segments from North American and Eurasian swine lineages as well as from avian and …

Viruses in mussels: public health implications and depuration

FX Abad, RM Pintó, R Gajardo, A Bosch - Journal of Food Protection, 1997 - Elsevier
… XAVIER ABAD, ROSA M. PINTO, RODRIGO GAJARDO and ALBERT BOSCH* … FX
Abad was recipient of a FI fellowship from the Generalitat de Catalunya. We are grateful to J. …

Goats primed with Mycobacterium bovis BCG and boosted with a recombinant adenovirus expressing Ag85A show enhanced protection against tuberculosis

…, N Romera, M Singh, FX Abad… - Clinical and Vaccine …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
This is the first efficacy study using the experimental goat model, a natural host of tuberculosis
(TB), to evaluate the efficacy of heterologous Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-…

[HTML][HTML] Pathogenesis and transmissibility of highly (H7N1) and low (H7N9) pathogenic avian influenza virus infection in red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa)

…, N Busquets, R Dolz, A Ramis, A Darji, FX Abad… - Veterinary …, 2011 - Springer
An experimental infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) and low
pathogenic avian influenza virus (LPAIV) was carried out in red-legged partridges (Alectoris rufa) …