Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Human Astrovirus Gastroenteritis in Children, Madagascar, 2004–2005

Dimitrios C. Papaventsis*, Winifred Dove*, Nigel A. Cunliffe*

, Osamu Nakagomi*†, Patrice Combe, Pierre Grosjean, and C. Anthony Hart*¹

Author affiliations: *University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; †Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan; and ‡Institut Pasteur, Antananarivo, Madagascar;

Detection of human astrovirus in fecal specimens from children of Antananarivo, Madagascar, 2004–2005*

Sample no.	ID no. (GenBank accession no.)	Sample date	Patient age, mo/sex	Norovirus PCR	Rotavirus PCR	Astrovirus
						PCR 340/348	PCR 244/245	PCR 269/270	Sequence typing
						PCR 340/348	PCR 244/245	PCR 269/270	ORF1a	ORF2
1	DT1004 (EF490429)	2004 Jun	12/M	Neg	G2P[4]	Pos	Neg	Neg	Type 1	–
2	DG6013 (EF490425)	2004 Jun	10/F	Neg	Neg	Pos	Neg	Neg	Type 3	–
3	DR0034 (EF490427)	2004 Nov	10/M	Neg	Neg	Pos	Neg	Neg	Type 8	–
4	DR0038 (EF490428, EF519312)	2004 Nov	5/M	Neg	G2P[4]	Pos	Pos	Neg	Type 8	Type 2
5	DR0075 (EF490426)	2005 Feb	21/M	Neg	Neg	Pos	Neg	Neg	Type 3	–

*ID, identification; ORF, open reading frame; Neg, negative; Pos, positive; –, not amplified.