To identify unknown human viruses in the enteric tract, we examined 105 stool specimens from patients with diarrhea in Bangladesh. A novel calicivirus was identified in a sample from 1 patient and subsequently found in samples from 5 other patients. Phylogenetic analyses classified this virus within the proposed genus Recovirus.

doi.org/10.3201/eid1807.120344, hdl.handle.net/1765/83596
Emerging Infectious Diseases - (Open Access)
Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam

Smits, S., Rahman, M., Schapendonk, C., van Leeuwen, M., Faruque, S. M., Haagmans, B., … Osterhaus, A. (2012). Calicivirus from novel recovirus genogroup in human diarrhea, Bangladesh. Emerging Infectious Diseases - (Open Access), 18(7), 1192–1195. doi:10.3201/eid1807.120344