Publications

molecular epidemiology of astrovirus infection in infants in wuhan, china.	we report the molecular epidemiology of astrovirus infection in 335 infants with diarrhea in wuhan city, china. astrovirus rna was detected in the stool specimens of 33 children (9.87%). genotyping analysis indicated that 23 out of 24 astroviruses identified were classified as belonging to genotype 1, with highest identity (>98%) to a mongolian strain.	2007	17301278
identification of new subtype of astrovirus type 3 from an infant with diarrhea in wuhan, china.	human astrovirus is one of the important causes for viral gastroenteritis in young children. in previous study where we examined the molecular epidemiology of human astrovirus (hastv) infection in infants in wuhan city, we isolated and identified a new subtype (wh1859) of hastv genotype 3 from an infant with diarrhea. the sequence analysis of this strain showed that the complete region of orf2 of wh1859 contains 2385-bp of nucleotides that encode 795 amino acids. because wh1859 strain has the id ...	2008	18308361