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Environmental Surveillance of Norovirus Genogroups I and II for Sensitive Detection of Epidemic Variants.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 May 2017
Kazama Shinobu, Miura Takayuki, Masago Yoshifumi, Konta Yoshimitsu, Tohma Kentaro, Manaka Takafumi, Liu Xiaofang, Nakayama Daisuke, Tanno Takashi, Saito Mayuko, Oshitani Hitoshi, Omura Tatsuo
Abstract excerpt
Sewage samples have been investigated to study the norovirus concentrations in sewage or the genotypes of noroviruses circulating in human populations. However, the statistical relationship between the concentration of the virus and the number of infected individuals and the clinical importance of genotypes or strains detected in sewage are unclear. In this study, we carried out both environmental and clinical...
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