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| Zakhour, Maha; Maalouf, Haifa; Di Bartolo, Ilaria; Haugarreau, Larissa; Le Guyader, Francoise; Ruvoen-clouet, Nathalie; Le Saux, Jean-claude; Ruggeri, Franco Maria; Pommepuy, Monique; Le Pendu, Jacques. |
| Noroviruses (NoV) are major agents of acute gastroenteritis in humans and the primary pathogens of shellfish-related outbreaks. Previous studies showed that some human strains bind to oyster tissues through carbohydrate ligands that are similar to their human receptors. Thus, based on presentation of shared norovirus carbohydrate ligands, oysters could selectively concentrate animal strains with increased ability to overcome species barriers. In comparison with human GI and GII strains, bovine GIII NoV strains, although frequently detected in bovine feces and waters of two estuaries of Brittany, were seldom detected in oysters grown in these estuaries. Characterization of the carbohydrate ligand from a new GIII strain indicated recognition of the... |
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| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00014/12534/9527.pdf |
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| Maalouf, Haifa; Zakhour, Maha; Le Pendu, Jacques; Le Saux, Jean-claude; Atmar, Robert L.; Le Guyader, Francoise S.. |
| Bivalve molluscan shellfish, such as oysters, filter large volumes of water as part of their feeding activities and are able to accumulate and concentrate different types of pathogens, particularly noroviruses, from fecal human pollution. Based on our previous observation of a specific binding of the Norwalk strain (prototype norovirus genogroup I) to the oyster digestive tract through an A-like carbohydrate structure indistinguishable from human blood group A antigen and on the large diversity between strains in terms of carbohydrate-binding specificities, we evaluated the different ligands implicated in attachment to oysters tissues of strains representative of two main genogroups of human norovirus. The GI.1 and GII.4 strains differed in that the latter... |
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| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00011/12215/9045.pdf |
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