“…HAstV_G2, HAstV_G3 and HAstV_G4 are also associated with diarrhea outbreaks, which have been reported frequently (Mitchell et al, 1999;Matsui et al, 1998;Méndez-Toss et al, 2000). HAstVassociated diarrheal outbreaks have been reported from military recruits in France, primary and junior high school teachers in Japan, and also in South African and Australian adults (Belliot et al, 1997b;Oishi et al, 1994;Pager and Steele, 2002;Marshall et al, 2007). Recently, sporadic cases of AGE in children due to dual genotype HAstV strains were reported from Western India (Verma et al, 2010).…”