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High evolutionary rate of human astrovirus.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2012
Babkin Igor V, Tikunov Artem Y, Zhirakovskaia Elena V, Netesov Sergei V, Tikunova Nina V
Abstract excerpt
Human astrovirus is one of the etiological agents of acute gastroenteritis in humans, mostly in young children and elderly people. Complete genome sequencing of four human astrovirus strains isolated in Novosibirsk, Russia was performed. Analysis of these sequences and the sequences available in GenBank database has detected numerous potential recombination breakpoints. For the first time the rate of human...
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