Astrovirus Research Essential Ideas, Everyday Impacts, Future Directions /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schultz-Cherry, Stacey (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Virology.; Infectious diseases.; Biochemistry.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Infectious Diseases.; Animal Biochemistry.

Since their initial discovery in the 1970’s, astroviruses have been recognized as a leading cause of enteritis in infants, the elderly, and immunocompromised people, and were known to be widespread in animals and birds. In recent years, and with the advent of  pyrosequencing, there has been a virtua...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Epidemiology of Human Astroviruses
• Replication Cycle of Astroviruses
• Astrovirus Structure and Assembly
• Astrovirus Pathogenesis
• Immune Responses
• Astrovirus Taxonomy
• New Human Astroviruses
• Astrovirus Infections in Animal Mammalian Species
• Avian Astroviruses
• Index.