Publications

[occurrence of human astrovirus in são paulo city, brazil].	human astrovirus was detected during a 13-month longitudinal study of the incidence of diarrhoea viruses among hospitalized children (less than 2 years of age) in a pediatric clinic of the city of s. paulo (university hospital). serial fecal samples (intervals of 4 days) were collected from 146 children with and without acute diarrhoea at admission and during their stay in the hospital. two (3%) of the 67 children with diarrhoea were positive at admission to the clinic by the highly sensitive as ...	1991	1784973
molecular characterization of astrovirus in stool samples from children in são paulo, brazil.	the purpose of this study was to characterize astrovirus in faecal samples collected from children with and without diarrhea in são paulo, brazil, grouped into two sets: epm and hu. detection and genotyping were carried out using reverse transcription nested polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) with specific primers directed towards the genome open reading frame 2 (orf2). results for epm set showed that 66/234 (28.2%) were positive: 28/94 (29.7%) from children with acute diarrhea, 14/45 (31.1%) wi ...	2007	18209936