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Occurrence of Norovirus GIV in Environmental Water Samples from Belém City, Amazon Region, Brazil

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Noroviruses are the major cause of non-bacterial acute gastroenteritis outbreaks in humans, with few reports about the occurrence of the norovirus GIV strain. We investigated the presence of norovirus GIV in surface water (river, bay, and stream) and untreated sewage, and we determined a positivity rate of 9.4 % (9/96). The strains genotyped were GIV.1. To our knowledge, this is the first report of GIV in Brazil.

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Acknowledgments

This study is part of a larger project conducted with financial support from Fundação Amazônia Paraense de Amparo à Pesquisa (FAPESPA). We thank the staff of Environmental Microbiology Laboratory for their support on environmental collections and samples concentrations and Norovirus Laboratory/IEC for technical assistance.

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  1. Postgraduate Program in Tropical Diseases, Tropical Medicine Center, Federal University of Para State, Belém, Pará, Brazil

    Dielle Monteiro Teixeira

  2. Virology Section, Evandro Chagas Institute, Brazilian Ministry of Health, Rodovia Br-316, Km 7 s/n, Levilândia, Ananindeua, Pará, 67030-000, Brazil

    Dielle Monteiro Teixeira, Luciana Damascena Silva, Darleise de Souza Oliveira, Paula Katharine de Pontes Spada, Joana D’Arc Pereira Mascarenhas, Alexandre Costa Linhares & Yvone Benchimol Gabbay

  3. Postgraduate Program in Virology, Evandro Chagas Institute, Brazilian Ministry of Health, Rodovia Br-316, Km 7 s/n, Levilândia, Ananindeua, Pará, 67030-000, Brazil

    Juliana Merces Hernandez

  4. Environment Section, Evandro Chagas Institute, Brazilian Ministry of Health, Rodovia Br-316, Km 7 s/n, Levilândia, Ananindeua, Pará, 67030-000, Brazil

    Tereza Cristina Monteiro Gurjão & Lena Líllian Canto de Sá Morais

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Teixeira, D.M., Hernandez, J.M., Silva, L.D. et al. Occurrence of Norovirus GIV in Environmental Water Samples from Belém City, Amazon Region, Brazil. Food Environ Virol 8, 101–104 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-015-9220-6

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