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Molecular epidemiology of noroviruses in children and adults with acute gastroenteritis in Wuhan, China, 2007-2010.
Archives of virology - 1 Dec 2012
Wang Yuan-Hong, Zhou Dun-Jin, Zhou Xuan, Yang Ting, Ghosh Souvik, Pang Bei-Bei, Peng Jin-Song, Liu Man-Qing, Hu Quan, Kobayashi Nobumichi
Abstract excerpt
To study epidemiological features and genetic characteristics of noroviruses in children and adults with acute gastroenteritis, fecal specimens were collected in three hospitals from Jan. 2007 to May 2010 in Wuhan, China. Noroviruses were detected in 25.9 % (286/1103) and 24.6 % (202/822) of the specimens from children and adults, respectively, with genogroup II (GII) being predominant (99.2 %). The most frequent...
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