Introduction to gastroenteritis, importance in world-wide morbidity and mortality, differential diagnosis of bacterial and viral causes, gastroenteritis as a preventable disease; pathology; Electron microscopy in gastroenteritis (viral diversity, use, limitations, advantages, disadvantages); Rotaviruses (structure, classification, epidemiology, replication, pathology; symptoms, diagnosis, control, therapy and vaccines; enteric Adenoviruses; Astroviruses; Caliciviruses; Norwalk and Norwalk-like viruses; SRVs (Enteroviruses & Parvoviruses) and SRSVs; other viruses associated with gastroenteritis (HAV, HEV, Toroviruses.

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