Genetic Diversity of Human Sapovirus across the Americas

Since the introduction of rotavirus vaccines, norovirus has become the leading cause of medically-attended acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in many countries including the US [1,2]. Of the other viruses associated with AGE, sapoviruses have increasingly been detected in endemic and epidemic AGE [3 –6]. Using real-time RT-PCR, studies from low-, middle-, and high-income countries have shown that the prevalence of sapovirus in children

Source: Journal of Clinical Virology - May 6, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Marta Diez-Valcarce, Christina J. Castro, Rachel L. Marine, Natasha Halasa, Holger Mayta, Mayuko Saito, Laura Tsaknaridis, Chao-Yang Pan, Filemon Bucardo, Sylvia Becker-Dreps, Maria Renee Lopez, Laura Cristal Maga ña, Terry Fei Fan Ng, Jan Vinjé Source Type: research