Global spread of norovirus GII.17 Kawasaki 308, 2014–2016

This study was supported in part by the Commissioned Health and Medical Research Fund (Phase 3) of Food and Health Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (to M.C.W.C.; reference number CU-15-C2); institutional direct grant for research (to M.C.W.C.; reference number 2015.1.036); Thailand’s Research Chair Grant from the National Science and Technology Development Agency (to Y.P.); and European Union H2020 grant COMPARE under grant agreement number 643476. The New Zealand samples were collected for norovirus outbreak surveillance purposes, which is funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Health.