Laboratory Animal and Comparative Medicine ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2): 167-170.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-5817.2014.02.019

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Situation on Research of Murine Norovirus

LIU Qin1,2, WEI Xiao-feng3, GAO Cheng2,3   

  1. 1. Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China;
    2. Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood esearch, Shanghai 200032, China;
    3. Shanghai Laboratory Animal Research Center, Shanghai 201203, China
  • Received:2013-10-18 Online:2014-04-25 Published:2014-04-25

Abstract: Norwalk virus, also known as norovirus, is the major pathogen to cause human nonbacterial gastroenteritis, in addition, Norwalk virus is also found in cattle, pigs and mice . Norwalk virus can be divided into five genotypes (GI-V), and the murine norovirus (MNV) belongs to GV. MNV is a newly discovered virus infection in laboratory mice, and is considered to be the most popular form of mouse virus. Now, MNV is the only one that can be replicated efficiently in cells of the Norwalk virus, so MNV is regarded as a research model for the molecular mechanism of Norwalk virus. Moreover, MNV and human Norovirus (HuNV) have many similar characteristics of molecular biology, and also is considered to be the ideal virus model for study of human norovirus.

Key words: Murine norovirus(MNV), Biological characteristics, Epidemiology

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