Enteric viruses, particularly rotaviruses and noroviruses, are a leading cause of
gastroenteritis worldwide. Rotaviruses primarily affect young children, accounting for almost …

Since the first antiviral drug, idoxuridine, was approved in 1963, 90 antiviral drugs
categorized into 13 functional groups have been formally approved for the treatment of the …

Microbiology is important to food safety, production, processing, preservation, and storage.
Microbes such as bacteria, molds, and yeasts are employed for the foods production and …

Fenner and White's Medical Virology, Fifth Edition provides an integrated view of related
sciences, from cell biology, to medical epidemiology and human social behavior. The …

Viruses are linked to a multitude of human illnesses and can disseminate widely in
urbanized environments causing global adverse impacts on communities and healthcare …

The virome is comprised of endogenous retroviruses, eukaryotic viruses, and
bacteriophages and is increasingly being recognized as an essential part of the human …

The intestinal microbiota exerts a marked influence in the mammalian host, both during
homeostasis and disease. However, until very recently, there has been relatively little focus …

The application of next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques for the identification of
viruses present in urban sewage has not been fully explored. This is partially due to a lack of …

Astroviruses are nonenveloped, positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses that cause
gastrointestinal illness. Although a leading cause of pediatric diarrhea, human astroviruses …

Since they were identified in 1975, human astroviruses have been considered one of the
most important agents of viral acute gastroenteritis in children. However, highly divergent …