| genomic characterization of human astrovirus type 6 katano virus and the establishment of a rapid and effective reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction to detect all serotypes of human astrovirus. | we previously reported that human astrovirus type 6 (hastv t6) was the etiologic agent of a large-scale outbreak of acute gastroenteritis that occurred in 1991 in katano city, osaka, japan [oishi et al., 1994]. the two representative strains, katano virus k23 and k24, have been analyzed by sequencing the open reading frame 2 (orf2) region after amplification by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr). the orf2 region of hastv t6 strains, including k23, was found to be about 20 b ... | 2000 | 10745244 |