[Epidemics of gastroenteritis caused by norovirus in Parisian children]

Arch Pediatr. 2010 Nov;17(11):1522-6. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2010.08.005. Epub 2010 Sep 15.
[Article in French]

Abstract

During the months of October and November 2006-2008, norovirus was detected in the stools of 14 children hospitalized with acute diarrhea (no sapovirus). Nine of these noroviruses belonged to a unique GGII4 strain, which produced severe clinical symptoms, present only in 2007 and 2008 and absent in 2006. This strain, identified in Europe mainly in the elderly, seems to be on the rise in children in the Paris area over the past few years.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Caliciviridae Infections / diagnosis
  • Caliciviridae Infections / epidemiology*
  • Caliciviridae Infections / genetics
  • Caliciviridae Infections / virology*
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Feces / virology*
  • Gastroenteritis / diagnosis
  • Gastroenteritis / epidemiology*
  • Gastroenteritis / virology*
  • Genetic Variation
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Inpatients / statistics & numerical data*
  • Norovirus / genetics
  • Norovirus / isolation & purification*
  • Paris / epidemiology
  • Retrospective Studies