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Astrovirus infections in humans and animals - molecular biology, genetic diversity, and interspecies transmissions.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2011
De Benedictis Paola, Schultz-Cherry Stacey, Burnham Andrew, Cattoli Giovanni
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Astroviruses are small, non-enveloped, positive sense, single-stranded RNA viruses first identified in 1975 in children suffering from diarrhea and then described in a wide variety of animals. To date, the list of animal species susceptible to astrovirus infection has expanded to 22 animal species or families, including domestic, synantropic and wild animals, avian, and mammalian species in the terrestrial and...
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