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Acute Gastroenteritis Caused by GI/2 Sapovirus, Taiwan, 2007

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  • Many of the previously reported cases were of mild, sporadic infections in young children [1,2,3], several recent sapovirus-associated gastroenteritis outbreaks have affected adults, which suggests that the virus’s virulence, prevalence, or both, may be increasing [4,5,6]

  • We describe a sapovirus-associated outbreak of gastroenteritis that occurred during May 4–8, 2007, and involved college students in northern Taiwan

  • SaV124F, SaV1F, SaV5F, and SaV1245R primers as well as SaV124TP and SaV5TP minor-groove binding probes were used for real-time reverse transcription–PCR (RT-PCR) diagnosis, which targets the sapovirus RdRp-capsid junction region as described [7]

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Fournier PE, Lelievre H, Eykyn SJ, Mainardi JL, Marrie TJ, Bruneel F, et al Epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of Bartonella quintana and Bartonella henselae endocarditis: a study of 48 patients. Many of the previously reported cases were of mild, sporadic infections in young children [1,2,3], several recent sapovirus-associated gastroenteritis outbreaks have affected adults, which suggests that the virus’s virulence, prevalence, or both, may be increasing [4,5,6]. We describe a sapovirus-associated outbreak of gastroenteritis that occurred during May 4–8, 2007, and involved college students in northern Taiwan.

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