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Volume 27, Number 1—January 2021
Dispatch

Detection of Norovirus Variant GII.4 Hong Kong in Asia and Europe, 2017−2019

Martin Chi-Wai Chan1, Sunando Roy, Joseph Bonifacio, Lin-Yao Zhang, Preeti Chhabra, Jenny C.M. Chan, Cristina Celma, Mary Ann Igoy, Sin-Leung Lau, Kirran N. Mohammad, Jan Vinjé, Harry Vennema, Judith Breuer, Marion Koopmans, Miranda de GraafComments to Author , and for NOROPATROL2
Author affiliations: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (M.C.-W. Chan, L.-Y. Zhang, J.C.M. Chan, S.-L. Lau, K.N. Mohammad); University College London, London, UK (S. Roy, J. Breuer); Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Muntinlupa City, the Philippines (J. Bonifacio, M.A. Igoy); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (P. Chhabra, J. Vinjé); Public Health England, London (C. Celma); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands (H. Vennema); Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (M. Koopmans, M. de Graaf)

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Table 2

Amino acids on the major capsid protein at 5 positions proposed to be influential in the emergence and replacement of pandemic norovirus GII.4 variants since 1995*

GII.4 variant Amino acid position
352 355 357 368 378
Hong Kong S A D G G
Osaka L S D A G
Sydney 2012 Y S D E N
New Orleans 2009 Y S D A N
Den Haag 2006 Y S P S H
Hunter 2004 S S H S G
Farmington Hills 2002 S D H N G
US 1995–96 S S H T G

*GII.4 variants with pandemic spread are annotated with the year of predominance (e.g., Sydney 2012). Amino acids are shown by 1-letter codes and color-coded to show variations. Source: (7).

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1Current affiliation: Research Office, Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong, China.

2Members who contributed data are listed at the end of this article.

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