Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Human norovirus targets enteroendocrine epithelial cells in the small intestine

  • Kim Y. Green,
  • Stuart S. Kaufman,
  • Bianca M. Nagata,
  • Natthawan Chaimongkol,
  • Daniel Y. Kim,
  • Eric A. Levenson,
  • Christine M. Tin,
  • Allison Behrle Yardley,
  • Jordan A. Johnson,
  • Ana Beatriz F. Barletta,
  • Khalid M. Khan,
  • Nada A. Yazigi,
  • Sukanya Subramanian,
  • Sangeetha R. Moturi,
  • Thomas M. Fishbein,
  • Ian N. Moore,
  • Stanislav V. Sosnovtsev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16491-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Human norovirus pathogenesis is incompletely understood due to a lack of appropriate animal disease models. Here, Green et al. show norovirus replication in chromogranin A-positive enteroendocrine cells and other epithelial cells in tissue from a pediatric intestinal transplant recipient with severe gastroenteritis.