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Detection of novel astroviruses MLB1 and MLB2 in the sera of febrile Tanzanian children

Samuel CordeyLaboratory of Virology, Infectious Diseases ServiceUniversity Hospitals of Geneva1211GenevaSwitzerland;University of Geneva Medical School1211GenevaSwitzerlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Mary-Anne HartleyDepartment of Ambulatory Care and Community MedicineUniversity of Lausanne1011LausanneSwitzerland
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Kristina KeitelSwiss Tropical and Public Health InstituteUniversity of Basel4002BaselSwitzerland
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Florian LaubscherLaboratory of Virology, Infectious Diseases ServiceUniversity Hospitals of Geneva1211GenevaSwitzerland;University of Geneva Medical School1211GenevaSwitzerland
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Francisco BritoSwiss Institute of Bioinformatics1211GenevaSwitzerland
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Thomas JunierGlobal Health Institute, School of Life SciencesEcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne1015LausanneSwitzerland;Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics1015LausanneSwitzerland
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Frank KagoroIfakara Health InstituteDar es SalaamUnited Republic of TanzaniaORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-4608-7167
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Josephine SamakaIfakara Health InstituteDar es SalaamUnited Republic of Tanzania;Amana HospitalDar es SalaamUnited Republic of Tanzania
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John MasimbaIfakara Health InstituteDar es SalaamUnited Republic of Tanzania
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Zamzam SaidIfakara Health InstituteDar es SalaamUnited Republic of Tanzania
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Hosiana TembaIfakara Health InstituteDar es SalaamUnited Republic of Tanzania
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Tarsis MlaganileIfakara Health InstituteDar es SalaamUnited Republic of Tanzania
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Mylène DocquieriGE3 Genomics PlatformUniversity of Geneva1211GenevaSwitzerland
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Jacques FellayGlobal Health Institute, School of Life SciencesEcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne1015LausanneSwitzerland;Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics1015LausanneSwitzerland;Precision Medicine UnitLausanne University Hospital1011LausanneSwitzerland
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Laurent KaiserLaboratory of Virology, Infectious Diseases ServiceUniversity Hospitals of Geneva1211GenevaSwitzerland;University of Geneva Medical School1211GenevaSwitzerland
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Valérie D’AcremontDepartment of Ambulatory Care and Community MedicineUniversity of Lausanne1011LausanneSwitzerland;Swiss Tropical and Public Health InstituteUniversity of Basel4002BaselSwitzerland
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Pages 1-3 | Received 09 Oct 2017, Accepted 04 Jan 2018, Published online: 14 Mar 2018
 
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Samuel Cordey, Mary-Anne Hartley, Laurent Kaiser and Valérie D’Acremont contributed equally to this work

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Lara Turin and Gael Vieille (University Hospitals of Geneva) for technical assistance. This study was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no. IZ01Z0_146896 to VDA and no. 310030_165873 to LK) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (grant no. OPP1163434 to VD and LK)

Electronic supplementary material

Supplementary information accompanies this paper at (10.1038/s41426-018-0025-1).

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