1. Characterization of norovirus infections in Seoul, Korea
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Doo-Sung Cheon, Younghee Oh, Seokju Cho, Hyun Soo Kim, Seogju Cho, Bogsoon Kim, Young-Zoo Chae, Sung-Ja Cho, Seah Oh, Jihun Jung, Haesook Jung, Hyongsug Park, Sang-Hun Park, Namsook Jo, Sungmin Choi, Kyungwon Bae, Jung-Hun Kim, and Hyowon Jung
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Molecular epidemiology ,Virology ,Immunology ,Genotype ,Norovirus ,medicine ,Biology ,Detection rate ,Acute gastroenteritis ,medicine.disease_cause ,Microbiology - Abstract
The present study has determined the detection rate of norovirus (NoV) with acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in hospitalized children and describes the molecular epidemiology of NoV circulating in Seoul, Korea. Six hundred and eighty-three (9.8%) of samples were positive for NoV. Of these, the NoV GII genogroup was the most commonly found, with a prevalence of 96.2% (683 of 710). Only 27 samples were positive for the NoV GI genogroup. Ten kinds of GI genotype (GI/1, GI/2, GI/3, GI/4, GI/5, GI/6, GI/7, GI/9, GI/12, and GI/13) and eight kinds of GII genotype (GII/2, GII/3, GII/4, GII/8, GII/14, GII/15, GII/16, and GII/17) were identified in children with AGE during the years 2008-2011.
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- 2012