Three clusters of Saffold viruses circulating in children with diarrhea in Japan

• Main Authors: Pattara Khamrin, Aksara Thongprachum, Hideaki Kikuta, Atsuko Yamamoto, Shuichi Nishimura, Kumiko Sugita, Tsuneyoshi Baba, Masaaki Kobayashi, Shoko Okitsu, Satoshi Hayakawa, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Niwat Maneekarn, Hiroshi Ushijima
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84870913495&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/52155
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

Saffold virus (SAFV) is a newly discovered human virus in the genus Cardiovirus, family Picornaviridae. The virus was first described from fecal specimens of a child with fever of unknown origin in 2007. A total of 454 fecal specimens were collected from children with diarrhea attended clinics in Ja...