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SUBMITTER: Baldridge MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4409937 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20141127 6219
The capacity of human norovirus (NoV), which causes >90% of global epidemic nonbacterial gastroenteritis, to infect a subset of people persistently may contribute to its spread. How such enteric viruses establish persistent infections is not well understood. We found that antibiotics prevented persistent murine norovirus (MNoV) infection, an effect that was reversed by replenishment of the bacterial microbiota. Antibiotics did not prevent tissue infection or affect systemic viral replication but ...[more]