| emergence of rare sapovirus genotype among infants and children with acute gastroenteritis in japan. | a total of 1,154 fecal specimens from infants and children with acute gastroenteritis in five cities in japan (maizuru, tokyo, sapporo, saga, and osaka), collected from july 2003 to june 2005, were tested for the presence of diarrheal viruses by reverse transcriptase multiplex pcr. overall, 469 of 1,154 (40.6%) were positive for diarrheal viruses, of which 49 (10.4%) were positive for sapovirus. the peak of sapovirus infection shifted from april-june in 2003-2004 to october-december in 2004-2005 ... | 2007 | 17200841 |
| emergence of intragenotype recombinant sapovirus in japan. | sapovirus is an important causative agent of sporadic cases as well as of outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis in humans worldwide. a total of 603 fecal specimens collected from july 2005 to june 2006 from children with acute gastroenteritis in five localities in japan (maizuru, tokyo, sapporo, saga, and osaka) were screened for sapovirus by rt-pcr. it was found that 17 specimens were positive for sapovirus and it represented 2.8%. interestingly, intragenotype recombinant sapovirus gi/1 emerged wi ... | 2007 | 17368115 |