Complete Genome Sequence of Human Norovirus GII.4_2006b, a Variant of Minerva 2006

Zhihui Yang; Mark K Mammel; Michael Kulka

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01648-15

Complete Genome Sequence of Human Norovirus GII.4_2006b, a Variant of Minerva 2006

Genome Announc. 2016 Jan 28;4(1):e01648-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01648-15.

Authors

Zhihui Yang¹, Mark K Mammel¹, Michael Kulka²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Molecular Biology, Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, USA.
² Division of Molecular Biology, Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, USA michael.kulka@fda.hhs.gov.

Abstract

In 2006, the National Calicivirus Laboratory at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed multistate outbreaks of norovirus infection and identified two new GII.4 norovirus strains (Minerva and Laurens) through partial sequencing of the major capsid (VP1) gene. Here, we report the first complete genome sequence of the GII.4 Minerva isolate.