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Volume 30, Number 1—January 2024
Dispatch

Emergence of Novel Norovirus GII.4 Variant

Preeti Chhabra1Comments to Author , Damien C. Tully1, Janet Mans, Sandra Niendorf, Leslie Barclay, Jennifer L. Cannon, Anna M. Montmayeur, Chao-Yang Pan, Nicola Page, Rachel Williams, Helena Tutill, Sunando Roy, Cristina Celma, Stuart Beard, Michael L. Mallory, Gédéon Prince Manouana, Thirumalaisamy P. Velavan, Ayola Akim Adegnika, Peter G. Kremsner, Lisa C. Lindesmith, Stéphane Hué, Ralph S. Baric, Judith Breuer, and Jan Vinjé
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (P. Chhabra, L. Barclay, J.L. Cannon, A.M. Montmayeur, J. Vinjé); London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK (D.C. Tully, S. Hué); University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa (J. Mans, N. Page); Robert Koch Institut, Berlin, Germany (S. Niendorf); California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, USA (C.-Y. Pan); National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa (N. Page); UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London (R. Williams, H. Tutill, S. Roy, J. Breuer); UK Health Security Agency, London (C. Celma, S. Beard); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA (M.L. Mallory, L.C. Lindesmith, R.S. Baric); Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (G.P. Manouana, T.P. Velavan, A.A. Adegnika); Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambarene, Gabon (G.P. Manouana, A.A. Adegnika, P.G. Kremsner); Vietnamese-German Center for Medical Research, Hanoi, Vietnam (T.P. Velavan); Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam (T.P. Velavan); German Center for Infection Research, Tübingen (A.A. Adegnika)

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Table

List of oligonucleotide primers used to examine emergence of novel norovirus GII.4 strains on 3 continents*

Primer names Sequence, 5′ → 3′ Orientation Nested reverse transcription PCR
NV6e ACC AYT WTG ATG CAG ACT A Forward Round 1
NV6f ACC AYT ATG ATG CTG ATT A Forward Round 1
NV6g ATC AYT ATG ATG CWG AYT A Forward Round 1
NV357a CGC CAG TCC AGG AGT CCA AAA TY Reverse Round 1
NV378 GCT TAC GAA TGT GAG CGA A Reverse Round 2

*Primers were used to amplify complete ORF2 and ORF3 genes of GII.4 San Francisco strains from Gabon. ORF, open reading frame

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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