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Multiple Novel Astrovirus Species in Human Stool

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Kapoor, A., Li, L., Victoria, J., Oderinde, B., Mason, C., Pandey, P., Zaidi, S. Z., Delwart, E.·2009·Journal of General Virology

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Diarrhoea remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries where numerous cases remain without identified aetiology. Astroviruses are a recently identified cause of animal gastroenteritis which currently includes two species suspected of causing human diarrhoea. Using pan-astrovirus RT-PCR, we analysed human stool samples from different continents for astrovirus-related RNA sequences. We identified variants of the two known human astrovirus species plus, based on genetic distance criteria, three novel astrovirus species all distantly related to mink and ovine astroviruses, which we provisionally named HMOAstV species A–C. The complete genome of species A displayed all the conserved characteristics of mammalian astroviruses. Each of the now three groups of astroviruses found in human stool (HAstV, AstV-MLB and HMOAstV) were more closely related to animal astroviruses than to each other, indicating that human astroviruses may periodically emerge from zoonotic transmissions. Based on the pathogenic impact of their closest phylogenetic relatives in animals, further investigations of the role of HMOAstV, so far detected in Nigeria, Nepal and Pakistan, in human gastroenteritis are warranted.

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Kapoor, A., Li, L., Victoria, J., Oderinde, B., Mason, C., Pandey, P., Zaidi, S. Z., & Delwart, E.
Affiliations
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • University of Maiduguri (NG)
  • Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science (TH)
  • CIWEC Clinic Travel Medicine Center, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • National Institute of Health (PK)
Venue
Journal of General Virology
Published
2009-12-01
Volume
90
Issue
12
Pages
2965-2972
ISSN
  • 0022-1317 (ISSN-L)
  • 1465-2099
OpenAlex
W2114025285
Cited by
241
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FWCI
13.11
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Journal of General Virology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Blood Systems Research Institute
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL083254)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Virology and Viral Diseases
Keywords
human astrovirus, zoonotic transmission, viral emergence, viral genome, phylogenetic analysis, gastroenteritis
MeSH terms
Animals, Mamastrovirus, Diarrhea, Feces, Gastroenteritis, Humans, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Species Specificity, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Astroviridae Infections

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