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Increased circulation of GII.17 noroviruses, six European countries and the United States, 2023 to 2024
- Preeti Chhabra1 , Shan Wong2 , Sandra Niendorf3 , Ingeborg Lederer4 , Harry Vennema5 , Mirko Faber6 , Athinna Nisavanh7 , Sonja Jacobsen3 , Rachel Williams8 , Aoife Colgan9 , Zoe Yandle10 , Patricia Garvey9 , Haider Al-Hello11 , Katia Ambert-Balay12 , Leslie Barclay1 , Miranda de Graaf13 , Cristina Celma2 , Judith Breuer8 , Jan Vinjé1 , Amy Douglas14
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States 2 Enteric Virus Unit, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom 3 Consultant Laboratory for Norovirus, Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany 4 Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Graz, Austria 5 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands 6 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany 7 French Public Health Agency, Santé Publique France, Saint-Maurice, France 8 University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom 9 Gastroenteric, Zoonotic and Vectorborne Diseases Team, HSE-Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland 10 UCD National Virus Reference Laboratory, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland 11 Microbiology Unit, Department of Public Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland 12 French National Reference Centre for Gastroenteritis Viruses, Virology Laboratory, University Hospital of Dijon, Dijon, France 13 Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 14 Gastrointestinal Infections, Food Safety and One Health Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United KingdomAmy Douglasamy.douglas ukhsa.gov.uk
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Citation style for this article: Chhabra Preeti, Wong Shan, Niendorf Sandra, Lederer Ingeborg, Vennema Harry, Faber Mirko, Nisavanh Athinna, Jacobsen Sonja, Williams Rachel, Colgan Aoife, Yandle Zoe, Garvey Patricia, Al-Hello Haider, Ambert-Balay Katia, Barclay Leslie, de Graaf Miranda, Celma Cristina, Breuer Judith, Vinjé Jan, Douglas Amy. Increased circulation of GII.17 noroviruses, six European countries and the United States, 2023 to 2024. Euro Surveill. 2024;29(39):pii=2400625. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.39.2400625 Received: 23 Sept 2024; Accepted: 25 Sept 2024
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We report an increase in GII.17 norovirus outbreaks and sporadic infections of acute gastroenteritis in Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, England and the United States during the 2023/24 season. A decrease in GII.4 coincided with GII.17 prevalence increasing to between 17% and 64% of all GII detections. Overall, 84% of the GII.17 strains clustered closely with strains first reported in Romania in 2021 and two new sub-lineages were identified. Norovirus surveillance and molecular characterisation should be prioritised this winter.
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