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Emergence of a new norovirus genotype II.4 variant associated with global outbreaks of gastroenteritis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2006
Bull Rowena A, Tu Elise T V, McIver Christopher J, Rawlinson William D, White Peter A
Abstract excerpt
Norovirus (NoV) is highly infectious and is the major cause of outbreak gastroenteritis in adults, with pandemic spread of the virus being reported in 1995 and 2002. The NoV genome is genetically diverse, which has hampered development of sensitive molecular biology-based methods. In this study we report on a nested reverse transcriptase PCR (nRT-PCR) that was designed to amplify the highly conserved 3' end of...
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