The epidemiology of norovirus gastroenteritis in China: disease burden and distribution of genotypes

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2020, Vol. 14

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The epidemiology of norovirus gastroenteritis in China: disease burden and distribution of genotypes

Honglu Zhou¹, Songmei Wang², Lorenz von Seidlein^3,⁴, Xuanyi Wang^1,⁵(

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¹. Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of MoE & MoH, and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
². Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Training Center of Medical Experiments, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
³. Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
⁴. Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK
⁵. Children’s Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China

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Abstract

With the improvements of sanitation and nationwide safe water supply the occurrence of bacterial diarrhea declined remarkably, while viruses became the leading causes of acute gastroenteritis (AGE). Of these viruses, noroviruses (NoVs) are responsible for a considerable burden of gastroenteritis, especially in children<2 years and elderly≥65 years. NoVs circulating in the Chinese population are antigenically highly diverse with the genotype GII.4 being the dominant strain followed by GII.3. Given the widespread contamination in environmental sources, and highly infectious nature of NoVs, vaccination would be the desirable strategy for the control of NoV infections. However, a better understanding of acquired immunity after infection, and a reliable immunological surrogate marker are urgently needed, since two vaccine candidates based on virus-like particles (VLPs) are currently moving into clinical evaluations in China.

Keywords molecular epidemiology norovirus disease burden genotype China

Corresponding Author(s): Xuanyi Wang

Just Accepted Date: 19 November 2019 Online First Date: 11 December 2019 Issue Date: 02 March 2020

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Honglu Zhou,Songmei Wang,Lorenz von Seidlein, et al. The epidemiology of norovirus gastroenteritis in China: disease burden and distribution of genotypes[J]. Front. Med., 2020, 14(1): 1-7.

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Tab.1 Genotypes distribution of norovirus by study design in China

Fig.1 The detection rates of norovirus from different sources by seasonality.

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