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Emergence of a new norovirus variant in Scotland in 2006

R N Gunson, W Adamson, A Maclean, and W F Carman

West of Scotland Specialist Virology Centre, Gartnavel General Hospital, Great Western Road, Glasgow, G12 OYN, UK

For each month between January 2005 and August 2006, a representative number of outbreaks was examined using nucleic acid sequence analysis. Using this method it was shown that an increase in norovirus activity coincided with the emergence of a new GII.4 variant (v4) which by March 2006 was detected in the majority of health boards in Scotland.

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