Graphic by Jeff Lawton.




Rotavirus is the major causative agent of severe gastroenteritis in infants and young children. More than a million children die every year because of rotaviral gastroenteritis.

Rotavirus has a rather large and complex architecture. Our structural studies have provided significant insight into some of the biological processes of the virus such as cell entry, neutralization, transcription, and assembly.





Try the following links for more information than you would ever want to know on rotavirus.

http://www.oikos.warwick.ac.uk/%7Emaw/Projects/rotavirus.html(English)

http://www.bocklabs.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/srch-ICTV?rotavirus(English)

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/%7Emow/chap33.html(English)

http://home.telebuch.de/themen/ROTA8000.htm(German)

http://eureka.tamnet.com.mx/%7Ermurguia/ped2.htm(Spanish)




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