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Pyrosequencing Analysis of Norovirus Genogroup II Distribution in Sewage and Oysters: First Detection of GII.17 Kawasaki 2014 in Oysters.
Food and environmental virology - 1 Dec 2016
Pu Jian, Kazama Shinobu, Miura Takayuki, Azraini Nabila Dhyan, Konta Yoshimitsu, Ito Hiroaki, Ueki You, Cahyaningrum Ermaya Eka, Omura Tatsuo, Watanabe Toru
Abstract excerpt
Norovirus GII.3, GII.4, and GII.17 were detected using pyrosequencing in sewage and oysters in January and February 2015, in Japan. The strains in sewage and oyster samples were genetically identical or similar, predominant strains belonging to GII.17 Kawasaki 2014 lineage. This is the first report of GII.17 Kawasaki 2014 in oysters.
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