Epidemic of genotype GII.2 noroviruses during spring 2004 in Osaka City, Japan.
Between March and May 2004, a GII.2 genotype norovirus strain caused an epidemic of acute gastroenteritis in Osaka, Japan. Phylogenetic analysis showed that this strain was distinct from all other GII.2 strains detected in Osaka City between April 1996 and March 2005.
Iritani
Nobuhiro
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Laboratory of Microbiology, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan. seto@vet.osakafu-u.ac.jp.
Kaida
Atsushi
A
Kubo
Hideyuki
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Abe
Niichiro
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Murakami
Tsukasa
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Vennema
Harry
H
Koopmans
Marion
M
Takeda
Naokazu
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Ogura
Hisashi
H
Seto
Yoshiyuki
Y
D000328:Adult; D017250:Caliciviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D002648:Child; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D029322:Norovirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology
D012367:RNA, Viral