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Emergence of a novel GII.17 norovirus – End of the GII.4 era?
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 2 Jul 2015
de Graaf M, van Beek J, Vennema H, Podkolzin A T, Hewitt J, Bucardo F, Templeton K, Mans J, Nordgren J, Reuter G, Lynch M, Rasmussen L D, Iritani N, Chan M C, Martella V, Ambert-Balay K, Vinjé J, White P A, Koopmans M P
Abstract excerpt
In the winter of 2014/15 a novel GII.P17-GII.17 norovirus strain (GII.17 Kawasaki 2014) emerged, as a major cause of gastroenteritis outbreaks in China and Japan. Since their emergence these novel GII.P17-GII.17 viruses have replaced the previously dominant GII.4 genotype Sydney 2012 variant in some areas in Asia but were only detected in a limited number of cases on other continents. This perspective provides an...
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