Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Unità di Microbiologia e Virologia, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy.
Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Unità di Microbiologia e Virologia, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy.
Virus Res. 2014 Aug 8;188:142-5. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.04.005. Epub 2014 Apr 19.
Novel norovirus strains are continuously emerging worldwide. Molecular investigation and phylogenetic analysis identified GII.P16 recombinant noroviruses from the stools of four Italian children with gastroenteritis. The capsid gene was characterized as either GII.13 or GII.3. The GII.P16_GII.13 Italian strains were closely related to German strains involved in a large outbreak in the second half of 2012 and the Italian strains are the first recorded occurrence of GII.P16_GII.13 in Europe.
新型诺如病毒株在全球范围内不断出现。分子调查和系统发育分析从意大利四名患胃肠炎的儿童的粪便中鉴定出 GII.P16 重组诺如病毒。衣壳基因的特征是 GII.13 或 GII.3。GII.P16_GII.13 意大利株与 2012 年下半年德国大规模暴发有关的德国株密切相关,意大利株是欧洲首次记录到 GII.P16_GII.13。