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Characterization of novel intragenotype recombination events among norovirus pandemic GII.4 variants.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2016
Siqueira Jones Anderson Monteiro, Bandeira Renato da Silva, Justino Maria Cleonice Aguiar, Linhares Alexandre da Costa, Gabbay Yvone Benchimol
Abstract excerpt
Recently, there has been an increase in the number of children hospitalized due to norovirus infection in Brazil. This is due both to the occurrence of more severe norovirus-related gastroenteritis cases after the introduction of the rotavirus vaccine and an increase in the tools for the detection of the disease. This pathogen is transmitted by the fecal-oral route, and the illness is characterized by diarrhea,...
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