1. Gastroenteritis Outbreaks Caused by Norovirus GII.17, Guangdong Province, China, 2014–2015
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Xiaohua Tan, Yanling Mo, Jing Lu, Lin Fang, Jiaqian Lao, Lili Guo, Huanying Zheng, Limei Sun, Changwen Ke, Shannon Rutherford, Feng Yang, Li Hui, and Hualiang Lin
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Microbiology (medical) ,China ,Genes, Viral ,Epidemiology ,viruses ,genotype ,Molecular Sequence Data ,norovirus ,lcsh:Medicine ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Disease Outbreaks ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,fluids and secretions ,Genotype ,medicine ,Humans ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,Norovirus GII ,lcsh:R ,Dispatch ,Outbreak ,virus diseases ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,Virology ,digestive system diseases ,Infectious Diseases ,GII.17 ,Gastroenteritis Outbreaks Caused by Norovirus GII.17, Guangdong Province, China, 2014–2015 ,outbreaks ,Norovirus ,gastroenteritis - Abstract
In the past decade, the most prevalent norovirus genotype causing viral gastroenteritis outbreaks worldwide, including China, has been GII.4. In winter 2014–15, norovirus outbreaks in Guangdong, China, increased. Sequence analysis indicated that 82% of the outbreaks were caused by a norovirus GII.17 variant.
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- 2015