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A new variant of Norovirus GII.4/2007 and inter-genotype recombinant strains of NVGII causing acute watery diarrhoea among children in Kolkata, India.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Jul 2009
Nayak Mukti Kant, Chatterjee Debarati, Nataraju S M, Pativada Madhusudan, Mitra Utpala, Chatterjee Mrinal Kanti, Saha Tushar K, Sarkar U, Krishnan Triveni
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Noroviruses (NoVs) are one of the major causal agents of acute gastroenteritis among different age groups. Some of the recent studies reveal that NoV genome is highly prone to mutation and recombination which often leads to emergence of new strains. OBJECTIVES: To explore the genetic diversity of human Caliciviruses (HuCVs) among diarrhoeic children in Kolkata. STUDY DESIGN: The HuCVs were detected by...
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