| identification of a novel picornavirus related to cosaviruses in a child with acute diarrhea. | diarrhea, the third leading infectious cause of death worldwide, causes approximately 2 million deaths a year. approximately 40% of these cases are of unknown etiology. we previously developed a metagenomic strategy for identification of novel viruses from diarrhea samples. by applying mass sequencing to a stool sample collected in melbourne, australia from a child with acute diarrhea, one 395 bp sequence read was identified that possessed only limited identity to known picornaviruses. this init ... | 2008 | 19102772 |