KROK 1 2011 – Question 154 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
A three-year-old child has had marked diarrhea for three days. Immune electron microscopy of his excrements revealed bilayer pseudocovered capsid viruses that looked like small spoke wheels. What viruses have been revealed?
- A. Rotaviruses
- B. ECHO viruses
- C. Coronaviruses
- D. Coxsackie viruses
- E. Reoviruses
Hint
Use the capsid structure and the shape seen in the stool specimen, remembering that enteric viruses differ in single or double capsid layers and in having an envelope or not.
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