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[Interaction between noroviruses and human histo-blood group antigens].
Uirusu - 1 Dec 2007
Shirato-Horikoshi Haruko, Takeda Naokazu
Abstract excerpt
Norovirus (NOV), a member of the family Caliciviridae, is a major cause of water and food-borne acute nonbacterial gastroenteritis, and forms many morphologically similar but antigenically diverse groups of viruses. The virus-like particles (VLPs) derived from the prototype strain of NoV, Norwalk virus (NV/68), bind to histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs). HBGAs are carbohydrates that contain structurally related...
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