Genome Sequence of a Human Norovirus GII.4 Hong Kong[P31] Variant in Hong Kong, China

Erin H Y Tse; Lin-Yao Zhang; Sin-Leung Lau; Martin Chi-Wai Chan

doi:10.1128/MRA.01391-19

Genome Sequence of a Human Norovirus GII.4 Hong Kong[P31] Variant in Hong Kong, China

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jan 16;9(3):e01391-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01391-19.

Authors

Erin H Y Tse¹, Lin-Yao Zhang¹, Sin-Leung Lau¹, Martin Chi-Wai Chan^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
² Department of Microbiology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China martin.chan@cuhk.edu.hk.
³ Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
⁴ Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Abstract

We report the nearly complete genome of a norovirus GII.4 Hong Kong[P31] variant (GII strain Hu/HK/2019/GII.4 Hong Kong[P31]/CUHK-NS-2200) that was detected in a patient with gastroenteritis in August 2019. The genome was sequenced by metagenomic next-generation sequencing and was found to have 92.8% nucleotide similarity to the closest GII.4 norovirus sequence in GenBank.