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Volume 16, Number 1—January 2010
Research

Norovirus Gastroenteritis Outbreak with a Secretor-independent Susceptibility Pattern, Sweden

Johan Nordgren, Elin Kindberg, Per-Eric Lindgren, Andreas Matussek, and Lennart SvenssonComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden (J. Nordgren, E. Kindberg, P.-E. Lindgren, L. Svensson); National Board of Forensic Medicine, Linköping (E. Kindberg); County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden (P.-E. Lindgren, A. Matussek); Capio St Görans Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden (A. Matussek)

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Phylogenetic analysis of amino acids of the norovirus capsid gene from the gastroenteritis outbreak in Jönköping, Sweden (JKPG, •) and reference strains. The tree was constructed using the neighbor-joining and Poisson correction methods, with MEGA 4.0 software (www.megasoftware.net). Bootstrap values are shown at the branch nodes (values <70% are not shown). Reference sequences were collected from Genbank and represent the 8 genotypes of GI as described by Zheng et al. (26). Scale bar indicat

Figure 2. Phylogenetic analysis of amino acids of the norovirus capsid gene from the gastroenteritis outbreak in Jönköping, Sweden (JKPG, •) and reference strains. The tree was constructed using the neighbor-joining and Poisson correction methods, with MEGA 4.0 software (www.megasoftware.net). Bootstrap values are shown at the branch nodes (values <70% are not shown). Reference sequences were collected from Genbank and represent the 8 genotypes of GI as described by Zheng et al. (26). Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. NV-USA [M87661], Aich124-JPN [AB031013], SOV-GBR [L07418], C59-USA [AF435807], HLL219-USA [AF414403], Stav-Nor [AF145709], LR316-USA [AF414405], VA115-USA [AY038598], Kashiwa645-JAP [BD011871], PD196-DEU [AF439267], JKPG-SWE [FJ711163] DSV-USA [U04469], Chiba-JPN [AB042808], Valetta-MLT [AJ277616], Musgrove-GBR [AJ277614], SzUG1-JPN [AB039774], Hesse-DEU [AF093797], Wiscon-USA [AY502008], Wnchest-GBR [AJ277609], Boxer-USA [AF538679].

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