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. 1974 Dec;3(4):535-42.
doi: 10.1016/0091-7435(74)90019-x.

Acute viral gastroenteritis

A Z Kapikian

Acute viral gastroenteritis

A Z Kapikian. Prev Med. 1974 Dec.

Abstract

Two virus-like particles have been found to be associated with acute viral gastroenteritis. One, a 270-nm parvovirus-like particle (the Norwalk agent), was visualized and recognized by immune electron microscopy in an infectious stool filtrate derived from a community outbreak of nonbacterial gastroenteritis. It appears to be one of the etiologic agents of a usually self-limited form of gastroenteritis which commonly occurs in community outbreaks. The other, a 70-nm reovirus-like particle, has been observed by electron microscopy in specimens from infants and children with severe diarrhea in many parts of the world. The reovirus-like particle may emerge as a major etiologic agent of diarrhea of infants and young children.

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