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Noroviruses: epidemiology, immunity and prospects for prevention.
Future microbiology - 1 Jan 2015
Pringle Kimberly, Lopman Benjamin, Vega Everardo, Vinje Jan, Parashar Umesh D, Hall Aron J
Abstract excerpt
In recent years, noroviruses have become recognized as an important cause of both sporadic and epidemic acute gastroenteritis (AGE), largely due to the improved availability of broadly reactive real-time RT-PCR (TaqMan-based RT-PCR) assays. While there is substantial diversity among noroviruses, one specific genotype, GII.4, is the most common etiology in sporadic and epidemic AGE. Outbreaks of norovirus AGE most...
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