Evidence of a recombinant wild-type human astrovirus strain from a Kenyan child with gastroenteritis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 728-731

  Wolfaardt, Marianne ^a   Kiulia, Nicholas M ^b   Mwenda, Jason M ^b   Taylor, Maureen B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; ASTROVIRUS INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; GASTROENTERITIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KENYA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ASTROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KENYA; MAMASTROVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HUMAN ASTROVIRUS;

EID: 79951492622     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01093-10     Document Type: Article

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