Rotaviruses are the main infectious agent of acute gastroenteritis in children under the age of 5 years. Worldwide, rotaviruses are responsible for high mortality in this age group as World Health Organization estimate 453.000 deaths to be caused by rotavirus infection. In this lecture we present a review of the zoonotic potential of rotaviruses, their diversity found in human and animal rotavirus strains and findings of interspecies transmission studies and genetic mechanisms influencing the high viral variability in nature.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 29045465Mario Poljak and Miroslav Petrovec edited Slovenian university textbook Medical virology. Authors of all 22 chapters were members of the research group. The textbook is intended for Medical students and students of Dental medicine as well as for other biomedical professionals i.e. pharmacists, microbiologists and biomedical ingeneers.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 256037888The International Journal of Food Microbiology publishes papers dealing with all aspects of food microbiology. Articles must present information that is novel, has high impact and interest, and is of high scientific quality. The journal has the impact factor of 3.143.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
COBISS.SI-ID: 6316551