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Surveillance of human astrovirus circulation in Italy 2002-2005: emergence of lineage 2c strains.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Jan 2011
De Grazia S, Platia M A, Rotolo V, Colomba C, Martella V, Giammanco G M
Abstract excerpt
By screening faecal samples collected over four consecutive years (2002-2005) from hospitalized children with diarrhoea in Palermo, Italy, astroviruses (HAstVs) were detected in 3.95% of the patients. The predominant type circulating was HAstV-1 but, in 2002, only HAstV-2 and -4 were identified....
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