Complications: Dehydration may result,
this can be severe and life threatening in young children.
Pathogenesis
Group A: Main pathogen of infantile diarrhea
Group B : Cause epidemic adult diarrhea
Group C: Cause human or animal sporadic diarrhea
Associated with gastroenteritis
Rotaviruses Adenoviruses 40 41 Caliciviruses嵌杯病毒 Norwalk like viruses or SRSV (Small
Round Structured Viruses) Astroviruses SRV (Small Round Viruses) Coronaviruses Toroviruses
Human Rotavirus
Important Characteristics
70 nm round, double shelled, enclosing a genome of 11 segments of double stranded RNA.
Groups of Rotaviruses
Group C Infects Pigs (Occasionally Man)
Group D Infects birds Group E Infects pigs
Pathogenesis
Essentially an ingestion disease (faecaloral route)