Open AccessRotavirus and biliary atresia
Author(s) -
Paula M. Hertel,
Mary K. Estes
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
current opinion in gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.165
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1531-7056
pISSN - 0267-1379
DOI - 10.1097/mog.0b013e32834c7ae4
Subject(s) - biliary atresia , rotavirus , medicine , virology , gastroenterology , virus , liver transplantation , transplantation
New knowledge on rotavirus infection in children and well established mouse models has renewed interest in whether rotavirus could cause biliary atresia, an idiopathic, obliterative infantile disease of bile ducts that is the primary indication for liver transplant in children.