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Outbreak studies of a GII-3 and a GII-4 norovirus revealed an association between HBGA phenotypes and viral infection.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jul 2008
Tan Ming, Jin Miao, Xie Huaping, Duan Zhaojun, Jiang Xi, Fang Zhaoyin
Abstract excerpt
Noroviruses are the major viral pathogen of epidemic acute gastroenteritis. Two outbreaks of norovirus gastroenteritis that occurred in China in 2003 and 2006, caused by a GII-4 and a GII-3 strain, respectively, were studied to investigate potential association between viral infection and histo-blood types of hosts. The histo-blood group antigen (HBGA) phenotypes of 146 subjects (16 from the GII-3 and 130 from...
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