Sequence analysis of the capsid gene during a genotype II.4 dominated norovirus season in one university hospital: Identification of possible transmission routes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Holzknecht, Barbara Juliane ^a,b   Franck, Kristina Træholt ^a,c   Nielsen, Rikke Thoft ^b,d   Böttiger, Blenda ^a,e   Fischer, Thea Kølsen ^a   Fonager, Jannik ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CAPSID GENE; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

MIRIDAE; NOROVIRUS;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CAPSID; CAPSID PROTEINS; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84921033923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115331     Document Type: Article

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