Molecular epidemiology of norovirus associated with gastroenteritis and emergence of norovirus GII.4 variant 2012 in Japanese pediatric patients

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue , 2014, Pages 65-73

  Thongprachum, Aksara ^a,b   Chan it, Wisoot ^a   Khamrin, Pattara ^c   Saparpakorn, Patchreenart ^d   Okitsu, Shoko ^a,b   Takanashi, Sayaka ^a   Mizuguchi, Masashi ^a   Hayakawa, Satoshi ^b   Maneekarn, Niwat ^c   Ushijima, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

^d KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Gastroenteritis; Japanese; Norovirus; Variant

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERD IMMUNITY; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS G II.4; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; VIROLOGY;

CAPSID PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; BINDING SITES; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84894027524     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.01.030     Document Type: Article

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