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Emerging trends in the epidemiology of human astrovirus infection among infants, children and adults hospitalized with acute watery diarrhea in Kolkata, India.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2012
Pativada Madhusudhan, Nataraju Seegekote Mariyappa, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Rajendran Krishnan, Ramamurthy Thandavarayan, Ganguly Sandipan, Bhattacharya Mihir Kumar, Ghosh Mrinmoy, Kobayashi Nobumichi, Krishnan Triveni
Abstract excerpt
Human astroviruses (HAstVs) have now emerged as another common cause of non-bacterial acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in humans worldwide. This study investigated the epidemiology and genetic diversity of human astrovirus strains circulating among infants, younger children (up to 6 years), older children and adolescents (>6-17 years) and adults (18 years and above) hospitalized for diarrhea and their role in AGE in...
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