Complete Genome Sequence of an Emergent Recombinant GII.P16-GII.2 Norovirus Strain Associated with an Epidemic Spread in the Winter of 2016-2017 in Hong Kong, China

Martin C W Chan; Kirsty Kwok; Tin-Nok Hung; Lok-Yi Chan; Paul K S Chan

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00343-17

Complete Genome Sequence of an Emergent Recombinant GII.P16-GII.2 Norovirus Strain Associated with an Epidemic Spread in the Winter of 2016-2017 in Hong Kong, China

Genome Announc. 2017 May 18;5(20):e00343-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00343-17.

Authors

Martin C W Chan¹, Kirsty Kwok¹, Tin-Nok Hung¹, Lok-Yi Chan¹, Paul K S Chan^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
² Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China paulkschan@cuhk.edu.hk.
³ Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Abstract

A new recombinant norovirus, GII.P16-GII.2, emerged in the winter of 2016-2017. Here, we report the complete genome of this strain (Hu/GII/HK/2016/GII.P16-GII.2/CUHK-NS-1082), which was collected from a patient hospitalized with gastroenteritis in September 2016 in Hong Kong, China, and sequenced using next-generation sequencing. This genome had a 95.2% nucleotide identity to the closest sequence in GenBank.