Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Macee C. Owen
Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Holly Dudley
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Tomás López
Departamento de Genética del Desarrollo y Fisiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Rafaela Espinosa
Departamento de Genética del Desarrollo y Fisiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Memory Elvin-Lewis
Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Alejandro Colichon
Department of Immunology, Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
Departamento de Genética del Desarrollo y Fisiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Peter D. Burbelo
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Astroviruses are human pathogens with emerging disease associations, including the recent recognition of their capacity to cause meningoencephalitis. Astrovirus VA1 is the most commonly identified astrovirus genotype from cases of human encephalitis, but it is unknown what percentage of the human population has neutralizing antibodies to VA1.
