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Pattern of Shedding of Small, Round‐Structured Virus Particles in Stools of Patients of Outbreaks of Food‐Poisoning from Raw Oysters
Author(s) -
Haruki Kosuke,
Seto Yoshiyuki,
Murakami Tsukasa,
Kimura Teruo
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
microbiology and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1348-0421
pISSN - 0385-5600
DOI - 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1991.tb01536.x
Subject(s) - outbreak , biology , food poisoning , virology , oyster , ostreidae , virus , veterinary medicine , zoology , microbiology and biotechnology , shellfish , fishery , aquatic animal , fish <actinopterygii> , medicine
The pattern of shedding of the small, round‐structured virus (SRSV) particles in the stools of patients who suffered from food‐poisoning due to raw oysters was investigated. The duration and concentration of fecal shedding of the SRSV particles were studied by electron microscopic examinations of stool specimens obtained during the course of illness to see a relation of viral shedding to day of illness. It was found that the fecal shedding of the SRSV particles occurred within five days of illness; thereafter, the concentration of the SRSV particles in feces rapidly decreased within a few days during the course of illness.