| incidence of human astrovirus in central australia (1995 to 1998) and comparison of deduced serotypes detected from 1981 to 1998. | the incidence of astrovirus infection was determined among infants and young children admitted to alice springs hospital (central australia) with gastroenteritis from 1995 to 1998. astrovirus was detected by reverse transcription-pcr in 33 of 495 stool samples, and this represented 4.3% of a total of 774 stool samples tested for astrovirus, rotavirus, and norwalk-like viruses. astrovirus incidence was substantially lower than that of rotavirus but higher than that of norwalk-like viruses both ov ... | 2002 | 12409383 |