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Norovirus epidemics caused by new GII.2 chimera viruses in 2012-2014 in Japan.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2016
Motomura Kazushi, Boonchan Michittra, Noda Mamoru, Tanaka Tomoyuki, Takeda Naokazu
Abstract excerpt
The new GII.2 variant collected from May 2012-March 2014 consisted of GII.15 and GII.2 genomes, in which the putative recombination points found in the boundary region between ORF1 and ORF2. These findings suggested that the swapping of structural and non-structural proteins is a common mechanism for generating new epidemic variants in nature.
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