Microbe Monday – 5/14/18

It’s Monday and time for another #microbeMonday!

Today’s #microbe:

• it a virus
• the most common cause of gastroenteritis
• results in about 685 million cases a year
• single stranded
• belong to the Caliciviridae family
• can be classified into 5 genotroups
• are non-enveloped
• have linear and non-segmented RNA genome
• replication is cytoplasmic
• replicates through positive stranded RNA virus transcription
• replicates in the small intestine of the host
• commonly diagnosed by polymerase chain reaction assays

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