Identification of the novel Kawasaki 2014 GII.17 human norovirus strain in Italy, 2015

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 35, 2015, Pages

  Medici, Maria Cristina ^a   Tummolo, F ^a   Calderaro, A ^a   Chironna, M ^b   Giammanco, G M ^c   De Grazia, S ^c   Arcangeletti, M C ^a   De Conto, F ^a   Chezzi, C ^a   Martella, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VP1; PROTEIN VP2; VIRUS RNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WINTER; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEASON; VIROLOGY;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ITALY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84941236299     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.35.30010     Document Type: Article

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