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Occurrence of novel GII.17 and GII.21 norovirus variants in the coastal environment of South Korea in 2015.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Koo Eung Seo, Kim Man Su, Choi Yong Seon, Park Kwon-Sam, Jeong Yong Seok
Abstract excerpt
Human norovirus (HNoV), a positive-sense RNA virus, is the main causative agent of acute viral gastroenteritis. Multiple pandemic variants of the genogroup II genotype 4 (GII.4) of NoV have attracted great attention from researchers worldwide. However, novel variants of GII.17 have been overtaking those pandemic variants in some areas of East Asia. To investigate the environmental occurrence of GII in South...
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