DIARRHEA-ASSOCIATED ADENOVIRUSES: RAPID PRESUMPTIVE DIAGNOSIS BY ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

There is a need for the rapid recognition of infection by the newly-described enteral or diarrhea-associated adenoviruses (adenoviruses that are of proposed neutralizing serotypes 40 and 41, or that have restriction endonuclease electrophoretic profiles of Wadell groups F or G). These viruses especially infect infants, and they tend to be fastidious in their growth in conventional cell cultures.