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All of the articles supporting the assertions made throughout this website can be found here.  Additionally, several of the more recent of these references are further discussed on the Update 2002 page. 

 

David M. Knipe, Peter M. Howley editors-in-chief, Fields Virology, 2001
          
(Best first place to start for all things virus.)

Abad FX, Villena C, Guix S, et al.   Potential role of fomites in the vehicular transmission of human astroviruses.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2001 Sep;67(9):3904-7.

Avery RM, Shelton AP, Beards GM, et al. VIral agents assoicated with infantile gastroenteritis in Nigeria: Relative prevalence of adenovirus serotypes 40 and 41, astrovirus, and rotavirus serotypes 1 to 4.  J Diarrh Dis Res 1992; 10: 105-108

Bass DM, Qiu S. Proteolytic processing of the astrovirus capsid. J Virol 2000; 74: 1810-1814

Belliot G, Lee T, Kurtz JL, Monroe S. Protein and genetic characterization of an astrovirus type 8.  Abstracts of the American Society for Virology Meeting, Amherst, MA, 1999: 176

Bon F, Fascia P, Dauvergne M, et al. Prevalence of group A rotavirus, human calicivirus, astrovirus, and adenovirus type 40 and 41 infections among children with acute gastroenteritis in Dijon, France. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37:3055-3058

Chapron CD, Ballester NA, Fontaine JH, et al. Detection of astroviruses, enteroviruses, and adenovirus types 40 and 4a in surface waters collected and evaluated by the information collection rule and an integrated cell culture-nested PCR procedure. Appl Environ Microbiol 2000; 66: 2520-2525

Coppo P, Scieux C, Ferchal F, et al. Astrovirus enteritis in a chronic lymphocytic leukemia patient treated with fludarabine monphosphate.  Ann Hematol 2000; 79: 43-45

Guerrero ML, Noel JS, Mitchell DK, et al. A prospective study of astrovirus diarrhea in infancy in Mexico City. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1998; 17: 723-727

Herrmann JE, Nowak NA, Perron-Henry DM, et al. Diagnosis of astrovirus gastroenteritis by antigen detection with monoclonal antibodies.  J Infect Dis 1990; 161: 226-229

Kiang D, Matsui SM. Proteolytic processing of a human astrovirus nonstructural protein. J Gen Virol. 2002 Jan;83(Pt 1):25-34.

Kitahashi T, Tanaka T, Utagawa E. Detection of HAV, SRSV and astrovirus genomes from native oysters in Chiba City, Japan. Kansenshogaku Zasshi. J Jpn Assoc Infect Dis 1999; 73: 559-564

Lee TW, Kurtz JB. Prevalence of human astrovirus serotypes in the Oxford region 1976-1992 with evidence for two new serotypes.  Epidemiol Infect 1994; 112: 187-193

Lee TW, Kurtz JB. Serial propagation of astrovirus in tissue culture with the aid of trypsi.  J Gen Virol 1981; 57: 421-424

Madeley CR, Cosgrove BP. 28 nm particles in faeces in infantile gastroenteritis.  Lancet 1975; 2: 451-452

Maldonado Y, Cantwell M, Old M, et al. Population-based prevalence of symptomatic and asymptomatic astrovirus infection in rural Mayan infants. J Infect DIs 1998; 178: 334-339

Naficy AB, Rao MR, Holmes JL, et al. Asrovirus diarhea in Egyptian children. J Infect Dis 2000; 182: 685-690

Oishi I, Yamazaki K, Kimoto T, et al. A large outbreak of acute gastroenteritis associated with astrovirus among students and teachers in Osaka, Japan. J Infect Dis 1994; 170: 439-443

Palombo EA, Bishop RF. Annual incidence, serotype distribution, and genetic diversity of human astrovirus isolates from hospitalized children in Melbourne, Australia. J Clin Microbiol 1996; 34: 1750-1753

Walter JE, Briggs J, Guerrero ML, et al.  Molecular characterization of a novel recombinant strain of human astrovirus associated with gastroenteritis in children.  Arch Virol. 2001 Dec;146(12):2357-67.

 

 

Created by Gavin Williams
Human Biology 115A
Winter, 2002
Robert Siegel, instructor