Human astroviruses

A Bosch, RM Pintó, S Guix - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Human astroviruses (HAtVs) are positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses that were
discovered in 1975. Astroviruses infecting other species, particularly mammalian and avian …

Astrovirus biology and pathogenesis

V Cortez, VA Meliopoulos, EA Karlsson… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Astroviruses are nonenveloped, positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses that cause
gastrointestinal illness. Although a leading cause of pediatric diarrhea, human astroviruses …

Detection of a novel circovirus PCV3 in pigs with cardiac and multi-systemic inflammation

TG Phan, F Giannitti, S Rossow, D Marthaler… - Virology journal, 2016 - Springer
Background Porcine circovirus 2 causes different clinical syndromes resulting in a significant
economic loss in the pork industry. Three pigs with unexplained cardiac and multi-organ …

Diagnosis of neuroinvasive astrovirus infection in an immunocompromised adult with encephalitis by unbiased next-generation sequencing

SN Naccache, KS Peggs, FM Mattes… - Clinical Infectious …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (NGS) was used to diagnose an unusual and
fatal case of progressive encephalitis in an immunocompromised adult presenting at …

A metagenomics and case-control study to identify viruses associated with bovine respiratory disease

TFF Ng, NO Kondov, X Deng… - Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is a common health problem for both dairy and beef cattle,
resulting in significant economic loses. In order to identify viruses associated with BRD, we …

Astrovirus VA1/HMO-C: an increasingly recognized neurotropic pathogen in immunocompromised patients

JR Brown, S Morfopoulou, J Hubb… - Clinical Infectious …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background. An 18-month-old boy developed encephalopathy, for which extensive
investigation failed to identify an etiology, 6 weeks after stem cell transplant. To exclude a …

Astrovirus evolution and emergence

N Wohlgemuth, R Honce, S Schultz-Cherry - Infection, genetics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Astroviruses are small, non-enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses that
belong to the Astroviridae family. Astroviruses infect diverse hosts and are typically …

The broad host range and genetic diversity of mammalian and avian astroviruses

C Donato, D Vijaykrishna - Viruses, 2017 - mdpi.com
Astroviruses are a diverse family of viruses that infect a wide range of mammalian and avian
hosts. Here we describe the phylogenetic diversity and current classification methodology of …

Faecal virome of cats in an animal shelter

W Zhang, L Li, X Deng… - Journal of General …, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
We describe the metagenomics-derived feline enteric virome in the faeces of 25 cats from a
single shelter in California. More than 90% of the recognizable viral reads were related to …

[HTML][HTML] Astrovirus MLB2, a new gastroenteric virus associated with meningitis and disseminated infection

S Cordey, DL Vu, M Schibler, AG L'Huillier… - Emerging infectious …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Next-generation sequencing has identified novel astroviruses for which a pathogenic role is
not clearly defined. We identified astrovirus MLB2 infection in an immunocompetent case …