Complete Genome Sequence of a Recombinant GII.P16-GII.4 Norovirus Detected in Kawasaki City, Japan, in 2016

Yuki Matsushima; Tomomi Shimizu; Mariko Ishikawa; Ayako Komane; Nobuhiko Okabe; Akihide Ryo; Hirokazu Kimura; Kazuhiko Katayama; Hideaki Shimizu

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01099-16

Complete Genome Sequence of a Recombinant GII.P16-GII.4 Norovirus Detected in Kawasaki City, Japan, in 2016

Genome Announc. 2016 Oct 6;4(5):e01099-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01099-16.

Authors

Yuki Matsushima^{1

2}, Tomomi Shimizu¹, Mariko Ishikawa¹, Ayako Komane¹, Nobuhiko Okabe¹, Akihide Ryo², Hirokazu Kimura³, Kazuhiko Katayama⁴, Hideaki Shimizu⁵

Affiliations

¹ Division of Virology, Kawasaki City Institute for Public Health, Kanagawa, Japan.
² Department of Microbiology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
³ Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
⁵ Division of Virology, Kawasaki City Institute for Public Health, Kanagawa, Japan shimizu-h@city.kawasaki.jp.

Abstract

A recombinant norovirus, GII.P16-GII.4_Sydney2012, was first detected from nine patients with gastroenteritis in Kawasaki City, Japan, in 2016. The viral genome showed nucleotide sequence identities of 95.1% and 97.2% to the closest strains in the regions of 5' terminus to ORF1 and ORF2 to 3' terminus, respectively.