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Published in final edited form as: Euro Surveill. 2015 Jul 2;20(26):21178. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2015.20.26.21178

Table.

Overview of detected GII.17 norovirus strains worldwide, 1978–2015

Country Geographical
spread GII.17a
Yearb ORF1 ORF2 Study population Proportions of
typed strains or
outbreaksc
Suspected
source of
infection
Description of the
sequence (size)
Accession
number
References
French Guiana Single location 1978 GII.P4 GII.17 Children with AGE 1 strain Partial genome (7,441 bp) KC597139, JN699043 [14]
Brazil Rio de Janeiro 1997 (1994–2008) GII.17 Children with AGE 3/52 strains 5’-end ORF2 (300 bp) JN600531 [31]
Kenya Nairobi 1999–2000 GII.17 HIV positive children with or without AGE 1/11 strains 5’-end ORF2 (309 bp) KF279387 [32]
France Briançon 2004 GII.P13 GII.17 Child with AGE 1 strain Partial ORF1/2 (1,361 bp) EF529741 Data not shown
Paraguay Asuncion 2004–2005 GII.17 AGE in children (<5 years) 5/29 strains 3’-end ORF2 (255 bp) KC736582, KC736580, KC736578, KC736569 [33]
Brazil States of Acre (Brazil) 2005 (2005–2009) GII.17 AGE 2/62 strains 3’-end ORF2 (215 bp) JN587118 JN587117 [34]
United States Houston 2005 GII.17 AGE evacuees hurricane Katrina Predominant genotype in an outbreak Sewage ORF2 and 3 (2,459 bp) DQ438972 [35]
Argentina Single location (Argentina) 2005–2006 GII.17 River samples 1/33 strains [36]
Brazil State of Rio de Janeiro 2005–2006 (2004–2011) GII.17 Outbreaks of AGE 3/112 outbreaks 3’-end ORF2 (214 bp) KJ179752, KJ179753, KJ179754 [37]
Nicaragua Léon 2005–2006 GII.17 AGE 1 strain 5’-end ORF2 (244 bp) EU780764 [26]
France Sommières 2006 GII.P13 GII.17 AGE 1 strain Foodborne Partial ORF1/2 (1,056 bp) EF529742 Data not shown
Thailand Lopburi 2006–2007 GII.17 AGE 2 strains 5’-end ORF2 (209 bp) GQ325666, GQ325670, [38]
China Wuhan 2007 (2007–2010) GII.P13 GII.17 AGE 1/488 strains Partial ORF1/2 (1,096 bp) JQ751044 [39]
Mexico Mexico City 2007 GiI.17 Waterborne 5’-end ORF2 (1,337 bp) JF970609 NCBId
Switzerland Zürich 2008 GII.17 Renal transplant patient 1/9 strains ORF2 (1,599 bp) GQ266696 [15]
Nicaragua Léon 2008 GII.17 AGE in children (<5 years) 2/38 strains 5’-end ORF2 (244 bp) EU780764 [40]
South Korea Seoul 2010 (2008–2011) GII.17 AGE 1/710 strains 5’-end ORF2 (209) JQ944348 [41]
Brazil Quilombola 2009 (2008–2010) GII.17 Children (<10 years) 2/16 strains 3’-end ORF2 (215 bp) JX047021, JX047022 [42]
Cameroon Southwestern region of Cameroon 2009 GII.P13 GII.17 Healthy children and HIV positive adults 4/15 strains Partials ORF1/2 (1,024 bp) JF802504–JF802507 [43]
Guatemala Tecpan 2009 GII.17 Children after waterborne outbreak 1/18 strains Waterborne [44]
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 2009–2010 GII.17 AGE in children (<5 years) 1/36 strains 5’-end ORF2 (287 bp) JX416405 [27]
Netherlands Single location 2002–2007 GII.17 Nosocomial 3/264 strains Nosocomial [45]
South Korea South Korea 2010 GII.17 Groundwater samples 2/7 strains 5’-end ORF2 (311 bp) KC915021–KC915022 [18]
Ireland Ireland 2010 GII.17 Influent waste water 4/24 strains 5’-end (302 bp) JQ362530 [46]
South Africa South Africa 2010–2011 GII.17 Waste water 9/69 strains 5’-end ORF2 (305 bp) KC495680, KC495686, KC495672–KC495674, KC495664, KC495657, KC495655, KC495640 [47]
South Korea Jinhae Bay 2010–2011 GII.17 Oysters 1 strain [48]
Morocco Oujda (Morocco) 2011 GII.17 AGE in children (<5 years) 1/42 strains 5’-end (205 bp) KJ162374 [49]
South Africa Johannesburg (South Africa) 2011 GII.P16 GII.17 AGE Partial ORF1/2 (1,010 bp) KC962460 [50]
Cameroon Limbe 2011–2012 GII.P3 GII.17 Healthy adults and Children 4/100 strains Partial ORF1/2 (653 bp) KJ946403 [51]
Kenya Kenya 2012–2013 GII.17 Surface water 16/21 strains 5’-end ORF2 (306 bp) KF916584–KF916585, KF808227–KF808254 [19]
South Korea Gyeonggi 2012 GII.17 AGE outbreak 1 strain Waterborne 5’-end (205 bp) KC413386 KC413399–KC413403 [22]
China Guangdong province 2014–2015 GII.17 AGE outbreaks 24/29 outbreaks 5’-end (249 bp) KP718638–KP718738 [3]
United States Gaithersburg 2014 GII.P17 GII.17 AGE in child of 3 years 1 strain Partial genome (7,527 bp) KR083017 [21]
China Jiangsu province 2014–2015 GII.P17 GII.17 Outbreaks of AGE 16/23 outbreaks KR270442–KR270449 [2]
Japan Japan 2014–2015 GII.P17 GII.17 Outbreaks of AGE 100/2,133 strains Partial genome (7,534–7,555 bp) AB983218, LC037415, LC043139, LC043167, LC043168, LC043305 [1]

AGE: acute gastroenteritis; HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information; ORF: open reading frame.

a

GII.17 detection location with study location between brackets (when different from GII.17 detection location).

b

GII.17 detection year(s) with study years between brackets.

c

Either the proportion of strains that was typed as GII.17 or the proportion of outbreaks that was caused by GII.17 is given.

d

Information derived from the GenBank entry related to the accession number of the sequence.

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