Detection of the pandemic norovirus variant GII.4 Sydney 2012 in Rio Branco, state of Acre, northern Brazil
- Luciana Damascena da Silva
- Evandro Leite Rodrigues
- Maria Silvia Sousa de Lucena
- Ian Carlos Gomes de Lima
- Darleise de Sousa Oliveira
- Luana Silva Soares
- Joana D'Arc Pereira Mascarenhas
- Alexandre da Costa Linhares
- Yvone Benchimol Gabbay
Publication date
December 2013
DOI Publisher
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde ISSN
1678-8060 Journal
issn:1678-8060 Citation count (estimate)
10Abstract
Noroviruses (NoVs) are important cause of gastroenteritis in humans worldwide. Genotype GII.4 is responsible for the majority of outbreaks reported to date. This study describes, for the first time in Brazil, the circulation of NoV GII.4 variant Sydney 2012 in faecal samples collected from children aged less than or equal to eight years in Rio Branco, state of Acre, northern Brazil, during July-September 2012
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