Molecular epidemiology of human astrovirus infections in Saudi Arabia pediatric patients.

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Earlier work Tayeb et al. [Tayeb et al. (2008): J Med Virol 80: 1919-1929] set out to study the epidemiology of diarrhea viruses in pediatric populations. The study addressed initially rotavirus, enteric adenovirus, and astrovirus but was later expanded to include norovirus (NoV). Viruses were sought in fecal specimens and characterized for genotype using molecular methods (PCR, RT-PCR, and RFLP) for the first...

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