Volume 11, Number 12—December 2005
Research
Porcine Noroviruses Related to Human Noroviruses
Qiu-Hong Wang*, Myung Guk Han*, Sonia Cheetham*, Menira Souza*, Julie A. Funk†, and Linda J. Saif*
Table 3
Percentage amino acid identities of noroviruses within the capsid region
| Strain | Complete capsid (S domain, P domain) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Po/GII* | Hu/GII† | Hu/GI/Norwalk | Bo/GIII/Newbury-2 | Hu/GIV/Alphatron | Mu/GV/MNV-1 | |
| QW48 | 96–98 (100, 94–97) | 63–71 (77–85, 53–63) | 43 (59, 36) | 45 (62, 36) | 53 (71, 42) | 39 (58, 29) |
| QW101, QW125 | 70–70.6 (83, 63) | 61–71.4 (77–86, 51–64) | 42 (59, 35) | 45 (62, 38) | 54 (71, 44) | 39 (58, 28) |
| QW170, QW218 | 81 (90, 74) | 62–69 (77–82, 52–62) | 43 (59, 36) | 45 (61, 37) | 53 (72, 40) | 39 (60, 27) |
*Includes Sw43 and Sw918 strains.
†Includes Hawaii, Snow Mountain, Mexico, MD145, New Orleans, Baltimore, Gwynedd, Amsterdam, VA97207, Erfurt, Gifu, Fayetteville, M7, J23, and Neustrelitz strains.
