All Aboard! Enteric Viruses Travel Together

Carmen Mirabelli; Christiane E Wobus

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2018.07.012

All Aboard! Enteric Viruses Travel Together

Cell Host Microbe. 2018 Aug 8;24(2):183-185. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.07.012.

Authors

Carmen Mirabelli¹, Christiane E Wobus²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Electronic address: cwobus@umich.edu.

PMID: 30092191
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.07.012

Abstract

Individual virus particles have long been accepted as the infectious unit during cellular infection and host-to-host transmission. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Santiana et al. (2018) uncover vesicle-cloaked rotavirus and norovirus clusters in feces of infected hosts that are more infectious than free virus particles during fecal-oral transmission.

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MeSH terms

DNA Viruses
Enterovirus Infections*
Feces / virology
Humans
Norovirus*
Rotavirus*

Grants and funding

U19 AI116482/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States