Genetic diversity of noroviruses in Chinese adults: Potential recombination hotspots and GII-4/Den Haag-specific mutations at a putative epitope

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1716-1726

  Jin, Miao ^a   Chen, Jinan ^b   Zhang, Xiao hong ^c   Zhang, Ming ^d   Li, Hui ying ^a   Cheng, Wei xia ^a   Liu, Na ^a   Tan, Ming ^e,f   Jiang, Taijiao ^b   Duan, Zhao Jun ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR VIRAL DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^c National Institute of Sports Medicine   (China)

^d CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^e CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute gastroenteritis; Epitope; Genetic diversity; Noroviruses; Recombination

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; EPITOPE;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHINA; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

MIRIDAE;

EID: 80053565694     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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