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Characterization of phylogenetically diverse astroviruses of marine mammals.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jan 2010
Rivera Rebecca, Nollens Hendrik H, Venn-Watson Stephanie, Gulland Frances M D, Wellehan James F X
Abstract excerpt
Astroviruses are small, non-enveloped, positive-stranded RNA viruses. Previously studied mammalian astroviruses have been associated with diarrhoeal disease. Knowledge of astrovirus diversity is very limited, with only six officially recognized astrovirus species from mammalian hosts and, in addition, one human and some bat astroviruses were recently described. We used consensus PCR techniques for initial...
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