The prevalence of human astroviruses was tested in patients with acute gastroenteritis by using conventional duplex reverse transcription (RT)-PCR and electrophoresis. Diarrheal fecal samples were collected from 9,597 patients at local hospitals in Seoul. The prevalence of astroviruses was 1.0% (94/9,597 patients; mostly infants), and that of sapoviruses was 0.1% (14/9,597 patients). Age- and gender- wise analyses were carried out on 29 astrovirus-positive patients having complete information on file regarding their age, gender, and other particulars. The results were higher in patients of ages 0 to 14 yr, and 69.0% of the astrovirus-positive patients were females, of which 69.2% were infants (0 to 12 months), and 61.5% were 1-4 yr old. Notably, in the case of 5 to 78-yr-old acute gastroenteritis patients, 100% were females. © The Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine.
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Ham, H., Oh, S., Jang, J., Jo, S., Choi, S., & Pak, S. (2014). Prevalence of human astrovirus in patients with acute gastroenteritis. Annals of Laboratory Medicine, 34(2), 145–147. https://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2014.34.2.145
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