High level excretion of norwalk-like virus following resolution of clinical illness
- 1 January 2001
- Vol. 33 (1) , 50-52
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00313020123291
Abstract
We report the case of an elderly woman excreting high levels (about 5×105 virions per gram of faeces) of Norwalk-like virus (NLV) in the absence of any clinical symptoms of gastroenteritis. Analysis by reverse transcription, polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequencing was carried out on a 342-nucleotide region of open reading frame 1. This indicated that the NLV belonged to genogroup 2 and was more closely related to the Camberwell subgroup, the most common circulating in southeast Australia at present, than to the Norwalk and Mexico viruses.Keywords
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