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A stomach virus’s mysterious path into the gut is uncovered

Mouse experiments show how noroviruses do their dirty work.
Coloured transmission electron micrograph of norovirus particles

Norovirus, which is highly contagious and can survive for days on hard surfaces, infects as many as 700 million people globally every year. Credit: Centre for Infection/Public Health England/SPL

Noroviruses inflict diarrhoea and vomiting on hundreds of millions of people worldwide every year. Now, the gut cells targeted by the virus have finally been identified in mice.

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Nature 556, 277 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-04591-6

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