Slow-growing rotavirus mutant reveals early steps of viral assembly

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 11:20 in Health & Medicine

Rotavirus is responsible for more than 130,000 deaths annually in infants and children younger than five years. The virus causes severe, dehydrating diarrhea as it replicates in viral factories called viroplasms that form inside infected cells. Viroplasms have been difficult to study because they normally form very quickly, but a serendipitous observation led researchers at Baylor […]

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