Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2017)

Global Spread of Norovirus GII.17 Kawasaki 308, 2014–2016

  • Martin C.W. Chan,
  • Yunwen Hu,
  • Haili Chen,
  • Alexander T. Podkolzin,
  • Ekaterina V. Zaytseva,
  • Jun Komano,
  • Naomi Sakon,
  • Yong Poovorawan,
  • Sompong Vongpunsawad,
  • Thanundorn Thanusuwannasak,
  • Joanne Hewitt,
  • Dawn Croucher,
  • Nikail Collins,
  • Jan Vinjé,
  • Xiaoli L. Pang,
  • Bonita E. Lee,
  • Miranda de Graaf,
  • Janko van Beek,
  • Harry Vennema,
  • Marion P.G. Koopmans,
  • Sandra Niendorf,
  • Mateja Poljsak-Prijatelj,
  • Andrej Steyer,
  • Peter A. White,
  • Jennifer H. Lun,
  • Janet Mans,
  • Tin-Nok Hung,
  • Kirsty Kwok,
  • Kelton Cheung,
  • Nelson Lee,
  • Paul K.S. Chan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2308.161138
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 8
pp. 1359 – 1354

Abstract

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Analysis of complete capsid sequences of the emerging norovirus GII.17 Kawasaki 308 from 13 countries demonstrated that they originated from a single haplotype since the initial emergence in China in late 2014. Global spread of a sublineage SL2 was identified. A new sublineage SL3 emerged in China in 2016.

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