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Proposal for a unified norovirus nomenclature and genotyping.
Archives of virology - 1 Oct 2013
Kroneman Annelies, Vega Everardo, Vennema Harry, Vinjé Jan, White Peter A, Hansman Grant, Green Kim, Martella Vito, Katayama Kazuhiko, Koopmans Marion
Abstract excerpt
Noroviruses belong to a genus of genetically diverse viruses within the family Caliciviridae and cause acute gastroenteritis in humans and animals. They are subdivided into genogroups, each of which further segregates into genotypes. Until recently, a new genotype was based on a defined pairwise distance cutoff of complete VP1 sequences, but with the increasing number of available norovirus sequences, this cutoff...
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