Viral Gastroenteritis

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Overview of viral gastroenteritis....Pages 7-19
Rotavirus structure: interactions between the structural proteins....Pages 21-27
Structure and function of rotavirus nonstructural protein NSP3....Pages 29-35
Genome rearrangements of rotaviruses....Pages 37-51
Structure and function of rotavirus NSP1....Pages 53-58
Identification of the minimal replicase and the minimal promoter of (—)-strand synthesis, functional in rotavirus RNA replication in vitro ....Pages 59-67
Rotavirus protein expression is important for virus assembly and pathogenesis....Pages 69-77
A hypothesis about the mechanism of assembly of double-shelled rotavirus particles....Pages 79-85
Development of rotavirus molecular epidemiology: electropherotyping....Pages 87-91
Molecular epidemiology of human rotaviruses: genogrouping by RNA-RNA hybridization....Pages 93-98
Classification of rotavirus VP4 and VP7 serotypes....Pages 99-111
VP4 and VP7 typing using monoclonal antibodies....Pages 113-118
Natural history of human rotavirus infection....Pages 119-128
Protective immunity against group A rotavirus infection and illness in infants....Pages 129-139
Rotavirus immunity in the mouse....Pages 141-152
The gnotobiotic piglet as a model for studies of disease pathogenesis and immunity to human rotaviruses....Pages 153-161
Jennerian and modified Jennerian approach to vaccination against rotavirus diarrhea using a quadrivalent rhesus rotavirus (RRV) and human-RRV reassortant vaccine....Pages 163-175
Trials of oral bovine and rhesus rotavirus vaccines in Finland: a historical account and present status....Pages 177-186
WC3 reassortant vaccines in children....Pages 187-198
Rotavirus subunit vaccines....Pages 199-206
DNA vaccines against rotavirus infections....Pages 207-215
Prophylaxis of rotavirus gastroenteritis using immunoglobulin....Pages 217-223
Historical background and classification of caliciviruses and astroviruses....Pages 225-235
Structure of Norwalk virus....Pages 237-242
Recombinant Norwalk virus-like particles as an oral vaccine....Pages 243-249
Genetic and antigenic diversity of human caliciviruses (HuCVs) using RT-PCR and new EIAs....Pages 251-262
The epidemiology of human calicivirus/Sapporo/82/Japan....Pages 263-270
Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction detection and sequence analysis of small round-structured viruses in Japan....Pages 271-276
The molecular biology of astroviruses....Pages 277-285
The changing epidemiology of astrovirus-associated gastroenteritis: a review....Pages 287-300
Structural features unique to enteric adenoviruses....Pages 301-307
Closing remarks....Pages 309-311
Back Matter....Pages 312-312