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A food-borne outbreak of gastroenteritis due to genotype G1P[8] rotavirus among adolescents in Japan.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Sept 2014
Mizukoshi Fuminori, Kuroda Makoto, Tsukagoshi Hiroyuki, Sekizuka Tsuyoshi, Funatogawa Keiji, Morita Yukio, Noda Masahiro, Katayama Kazuhiko, Kimura Hirokazu
Abstract excerpt
Six high school students in Tochigi prefecture, Japan, developed gastroenteritis after eating at a pork cutlet shop. Molecular epidemiologic analyses showed that the causative agent was genotype G1P[8] rotavirus (RV), this being detected in stool samples from both the patients and the asymptomatic food handlers. The detected RV strains were closely related genetically. The only uncooked food that all victims had...
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