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Emergence of new norovirus variants and genetic heterogeneity of noroviruses and sapoviruses in children admitted to hospital with diarrhea in Thailand.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Feb 2010
Khamrin Pattara, Maneekarn Niwat, Thongprachum Aksara, Chaimongkol Natthawan, Okitsu Shoko, Ushijima Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
Enteric caliciviruses, including noroviruses (NoVs) and sapoviruses (SaVs), are recognized as important etiologic agents of acute gastroenteritis with considerable genetic diversity. In this study, fecal specimens collected from 147 infants and young children admitted to hospital with acute gastroenteritis in 2005 in Chiang Mai, Thailand, were screened for NoVs and SaVs by reverse transcription-multiplex...
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