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SUBMITTER: Zhou H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7089213 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhou Honglu H Wang Songmei S von Seidlein Lorenz L Wang Xuanyi X
Frontiers of medicine 20191210 1
With the improvements of sanitation and nationwide safe water supply the occurrence of bacterial diarrhea declined remarkably, while viruses became the leading causes of acute gastroenteritis (AGE). Of these viruses, noroviruses (NoVs) are responsible for a considerable burden of gastroenteritis, especially in children < 2 years and elderly ⩾ 65 years. NoVs circulating in the Chinese population are antigenically highly diverse with the genotype GII.4 being the dominant strain followed by GII.3. ...[more]