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Emerging GII.4 norovirus variants affect children with diarrhea in Palermo, Italy in 2006.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jan 2009
Ramirez Stefania, Giammanco Giovanni M, De Grazia Simona, Colomba Claudia, Martella Vito, Arista Serenella
Abstract excerpt
Although the genetic/antigenic heterogeneity of human noroviruses (NoVs) is impressive, a few genogroup II strains of genotype 4 (GII.4) are dominant worldwide. GII.4 NoVs evolve rapidly and in the last 15 years six epidemic variants have been identified. In 2005-2006, surveillance of sporadic viral gastroenteritis in children in Palermo, Italy, resulted in the detection of NoV strains in 20.9% of the patients...
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