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NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 7, Pages 421-433Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2016.48
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- European Union's Horizon 2020 grant [643476]
- Virgo Consortium
- Dutch Government [FES0908]
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Norovirus infections are a major cause of gastroenteritis, and outbreaks occur frequently. Several factors are currently increasing the challenge posed by norovirus infections to global health, notably the increasing number of infections in immunocompromised individuals, who are more susceptible to disease, and the globalization of the food industry, which enables large norovirus outbreaks to occur on an international scale. Furthermore, the rapid rate of the genetic and antigenic evolution of circulating noroviruses complicates the development of vaccines and therapies that are required to counter these challenges. In this Review, we describe recent advances in the study of the transmission, pathogenesis and evolution of human noroviruses, and consider the ongoing risk of norovirus outbreaks, together with the future prospects for therapeutics, in a rapidly changing world.
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