Complete Genome Sequence of a Nontypeable GII Norovirus Detected in Peru

Kentaro Tohma; Mayuko Saito; Holger Mayta; Mirko Zimic; Cara J Lepore; Lauren A Ford-Siltz; Robert H Gilman; Gabriel I Parra

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00095-18

Complete Genome Sequence of a Nontypeable GII Norovirus Detected in Peru

Genome Announc. 2018 Mar 8;6(10):e00095-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00095-18.

Authors

Kentaro Tohma¹, Mayuko Saito², Holger Mayta³, Mirko Zimic⁴, Cara J Lepore¹, Lauren A Ford-Siltz¹, Robert H Gilman⁵, Gabriel I Parra⁶

Affiliations

¹ Division of Viral Products, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
³ Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, School of Science and Philosophy, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
⁴ Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology, School of Science and Philosophy, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
⁵ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁶ Division of Viral Products, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA gabriel.parra@fda.hhs.gov.

Abstract

Norovirus, a leading cause of acute gastroenteritis in humans, is a highly diverse virus. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of a nontypeable genogroup II (GII) norovirus that was detected in a symptomatic Peruvian child in 2008. This virus showed low nucleotide sequence identities (≤82%) against all known genotypes.

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