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Norovirus Recombinant Strains Isolated from Gastroenteritis Outbreaks in Southern Brazil, 2004-2011.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Fumian Tulio Machado, da Silva Ribeiro de Andrade Juliana, Leite José Paulo Gagliardi, Miagostovich Marize Pereira
Abstract excerpt
Noroviruses are recognized as one of the leading causes of viral acute gastroenteritis, responsible for almost 50% of acute gastroenteritis outbreaks worldwide. The positive single-strand RNA genome of noroviruses presents a high mutation rate and these viruses are constantly evolving by nucleotide mutation and genome recombination. Norovirus recombinant strains have been detected as causing acute gastroenteritis...
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