Association of GII.P16-GII.2 Recombinant Norovirus Strain with Increased Norovirus Outbreaks, Guangdong, China, 2016

An unusual prevalence of recombinant GII.2 noroviruses (GII.P16-GII.2) in Guangdong, China, at the end of 2016 caused a sharp increase in outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis. This event was another non-GII.4 epidemic that emerged after the GII.17 viruses in 2014 and 2015 and warrants global surveilla...

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Veröffentlicht in:Emerging infectious diseases 2017-07, Vol.23 (7), p.1188-1190
Hauptverfasser: Lu, Jing, Fang, Ling, Sun, Limei, Zeng, Hanri, Li, Yanling, Zheng, Huanying, Wu, Siwei, Yang, Feng, Song, Tie, Lin, Jinyan, Ke, Changwen, Zhang, Yonghui, Vinjé, Jan, Li, Hui
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Zusammenfassung:An unusual prevalence of recombinant GII.2 noroviruses (GII.P16-GII.2) in Guangdong, China, at the end of 2016 caused a sharp increase in outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis. This event was another non-GII.4 epidemic that emerged after the GII.17 viruses in 2014 and 2015 and warrants global surveillance.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid2307.170333