Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2007)

Human Sapovirus in Clams, Japan

  • Grant S. Hansman,
  • Tomoichiro Oka,
  • Reiko Okamoto,
  • Tomoko Nishida,
  • Shoichi Toda,
  • Mamoru Noda,
  • Daisuke Sano,
  • You Ueki,
  • Takahiro Imai,
  • Tatsuo Omura,
  • Osamu Nishio,
  • Kazuhiko Katayama,
  • Naokazu Takeda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1304.061390
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 4
pp. 620 – 620

Abstract

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Human sapovirus was detected in 4 of 57 clam packages by reverse transcription–PCR and sequence analysis. This represents the first finding of sapovirus contamination in food. Closely matching sequences have been detected in stool specimens from patients with gastroenteritis in Japan, which indicates a possible food-to-human transmission link.

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