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Molecular characterization of astrovirus in stool samples from children in São Paulo, Brazil.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 Dec 2007
Resque Hugo Reis, Munford Veridiana, Castilho Juliana Galera, Schmich Herika, Caruzo Thabata Alessandra Ramos, Rácz Maria Lucia
Abstract excerpt
The purpose of this study was to characterize astrovirus in faecal samples collected from children with and without diarrhea in São Paulo, Brazil, grouped into two sets: EPM and HU. Detection and genotyping were carried out using reverse transcription nested polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) with specific primers directed towards the genome open reading frame 2 (ORF2). Results for EPM set showed that 66/234...
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