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Predicting Directions of Changes in Genotype Proportions Between Norovirus Seasons in Japan
Yoshiyuki Suzuki1, Yen Hai Doan2, Hirokazu Kimura3
1Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan.
Abstract:
The norovirus forecasting system (NOROCAST) has been developed for predicting directions of changes in genotype proportions between human norovirus (HuNoV) seasons in Japan through modeling herd immunity to structural protein 1 (VP1). Here 404 nearly complete genomic sequences of HuNoV were analyzed to examine whether the performance of NOROCAST could be improved by modeling herd immunity to VP2 and non-structural proteins (NS) in addition to VP1. It was found that the applicability of NOROCAST may be extended by compensating for unavailable sequence data and observed genotype proportions of 0 in each season. Incorporation of herd immunity to VP2 and NS did not appear to improve the performance of NOROCAST, suggesting that VP1 may be a suitable target of vaccines.
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