Near-Complete Genome Sequences of Several New Norovirus Genogroup II Genotypes

Preeti Chhabra; Kshama Aswath; Nikail Collins; Tahmeed Ahmed; Maribel Paredes Olórtegui; Margaret Kosek; Elizabeth Cebelinski; Phil J Cooper; Filemon Bucardo; Maria Renee Lopez; Christina J Castro; Rachel L Marine; Terry Fei Fan Ng; Jan Vinjé

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00007-18

Near-Complete Genome Sequences of Several New Norovirus Genogroup II Genotypes

Genome Announc. 2018 Feb 8;6(6):e00007-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00007-18.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Synergy, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
² CDC Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
³ Atlanta Research and Education Foundation, Decatur, Georgia, USA.
⁴ International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Unidad de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Iquitos, Peru.
⁶ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁷ Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
⁸ Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
⁹ National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, León, Nicaragua.
¹⁰ Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
¹¹ Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
¹² Division of Viral Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
¹³ Division of Viral Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA [email protected].

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report here the near-complete genome sequences of 13 norovirus strains detected in stool samples from patients with acute gastroenteritis from Bangladesh, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Nicaragua, and the United States that are classified into one existing (genotype II.22 [GII.22]), 3 novel (GII.23, GII.24 and GII.25), and 3 tentative novel (GII.NA1, GII.NA2, and GII.NA3) genotypes.