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Epidemiological and molecular features of norovirus infections in Italian children affected with acute gastroenteritis.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Nov 2014
Medici M C, Tummolo F, Martella V, Chezzi C, Arcangeletti M C, De Conto F, Calderaro A
Abstract excerpt
During a 5-year (2007-2011) surveillance period a total of 435 (15·34%) of 2834 stool specimens from children aged <14 years with acute gastroenteritis tested positive for norovirus and 217 strains were characterized upon partial sequence analysis of the polymerase gene as either genogroup (G)I or GII. Of the noroviruses, 99·2% were GII with the GII.P4 genotype being predominant (80%). GII.P4 variants (Yerseke...
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