[Molecular Epidemiology of Astrovirus Infection Among Hospitalized Infants in Kunming City, China, 2013～2014].

We investigated the infection and molecular-epidemiologic characteristics of human astrovirus (HAstV) of hospitalized infants in Kunming City from the year 2013 to 2014.Infection and genotype of HAstV of 63 samples of diarrheal feces and 42 controls were analyzed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR).The complete genome sequence of a HAstV strain was amplified and sequenced.