Viral Gastroenteritis - Chiba, Shunzo; Estes, Mary K.; Nakata, Shuji; Calisher, Charles H.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 1996)
Overview of viral gastroenteritis -- Rotavirus structure interactions between the structural proteins -- Structure and function of rotavirus nonstructural protein NSP3 -- Genome rearrangements of rotaviruses -- Structure and function of rotavirus NSP1 -- Identification of the minimal replicase and the minimal promoter of (-)-strand synthesis, functional in rotavirus RNA replication in vitro -- Rotavirus protein expression is important for virus assembly and pathogenesis -- A hypothesis about the mechanism of assembly of double-shelled rotavirus particles -- Development of rotavirus molecular epidemiology electrophero-typing -- Molecular epidemiology of human rotaviruses genogrouping by RNA-RNA hybridization -- Classification of rotavirus VP4 and VP7 serotypes -- VP4 and VP7 typing using monoclonal antibodies -- Natural history of human rotavirus infection -- Protective immunity against group A rotavirus infection and illness in infants -- Rotavirus immunity in the mouse -- The gnotobiotic piglet as a model for studies of disease pathogenesis and immunity to human rotaviruses -- Jennerian and modified Jennerian approach to vaccination against rotavirus diarrhea using a quadrivalent rhesus rotavirus (RRV) and human-RRV reassortant vaccine -- Trials of oral bovine and rhesus rotavirus vaccines in Finland a historical account and present status -- WC3 reassortant vaccines in children. Brief review -- Rotavirus subunit vaccines -- DNA vaccines against rotavirus infections -- Prophylaxis of rotavirus gastroenteritis using immunoglobulin -- Historical background and classification of caliciviruses and astroviruses -- Structure of Norwalk virus -- Recombinant Norwalk virus-like particles as an oral vaccine -- Genetic and antigenic diversity of human caliciviruses (HuCVs) using RT-PCR and new EIAs -- The epidemiology of human calicivirus/Sapporo/82/Japan -- Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction detection and sequence analysis of small round-structured viruses in Japan -- The molecular biology of astroviruses -- The changing epidemiology of astrovirus-associated gastroenteritis a review -- Structural features unique to enteric adenoviruses -- Closing remarks.
Keywords: Gastroenterology .; Pediatrics; Virology; Gastroenterology; Pediatrics; Virology