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Emergence of norovirus GII-4/2008 variant and recombinant strains in Seoul, Korea

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Recently, the emergence of a new NoV GII-4 variant strain every 2 or 3 years has been reported. One hundred seventeen NoV GII strains were detected by RT-PCR in children with AGE between August 2008 and February 2010. In phylogenetic analyses, GII-4 and GII-3 were the most frequently detected strains. The detection rate of the 2008 variant was similar to that of the 2006b variant in the winter seasons of 2009 and 2010. This study shows a changing pattern of a predominant GII-4/2006b variant to the 2008 variant, as well as a novel NoV recombinant strain, GII-6/GII-14, in Korea.

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This study was partly supported by the research grant (2009) by Inje University.

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  1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Sanggyepaik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

    Tae-Hee Han

  2. Department of Family Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

    Cheol-Hwan Kim

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Sanggyepaik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

    Ju-Young Chung

  4. Seoul Metropolitan Government Research Institute of Public Health and Environment, Virus Team, Seoul, Korea

    Sang-Hun Park

  5. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

    Eung-Soo Hwang

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T.-H. Han and C.-H. Kim equally contributed for this work.

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Han, TH., Kim, CH., Chung, JY. et al. Emergence of norovirus GII-4/2008 variant and recombinant strains in Seoul, Korea. Arch Virol 156, 323–329 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-010-0844-4

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