Acute Gastroenteritis Associated with Norovirus GII.8[P8], Thailand, 2023

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2023 Dec 26

PMID 38147526

Authors

Watchaporn Chuchaona

Sompong Vongpunsawad

Weerasak Lawtongkum

Nattawan Thepnarong

Yong Poovorawan

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Abstract

Acute gastroenteritis associated with human norovirus infection was reported in Phuket, Thailand, in June 2023. We amplified GII.8[P8] from the outbreak stool specimens. Retrospective sample analysis identified infrequent GII.8[P8] in the country beginning in 2018. In all, the 10 whole-genome GII.8[P8] sequences from Thailand we examined had no evidence of genotypic recombination.

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