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Analysis of early strains of the norovirus pandemic variant GII.4 Sydney 2012 identifies mutations in adaptive sites of the capsid protein.
Virology - 1 Feb 2014
Giammanco G M, De Grazia S, Terio V, Lanave G, Catella C, Bonura F, Saporito L, Medici M C, Tummolo F, Calderaro A, Bányai K, Hansman G, Martella V
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Global surveillance for norovirus identified in 2012 the emergence of a novel pandemic GII.4 variant, termed Sydney 2012. In Italy, the novel pandemic variant was identified as early as November 2011 but became predominant only in the winter season 2012-2013. Upon sequencing and comparison with strains of global origin, the early Sydney 2012 strains were found to differ from those spreading in 2012-2013 in the...
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