In 1968, during the outbreak of OKZ among schoolchildren and teachers in the city of Norwalk (USA), the agent of this outbreak, a virus called Norwolk, was discovered.
Rotavirus was first discovered in 1973 by R. Bishop and co-authors in the electron microscope study of duodenal enterocytes in children with gastroenteritis and in their bowel movements.
Currently, the ECHO group has 32 serovariants. A significant part of them has haemagglutinating properties, and all of them multiply well in cell culture.
This virus was isolated in the town of Coxsackie (New York State), so G. Doldorf proposed to temporarily name this and similar viruses by the viruses of the Coxsackie group. This name has survived to the present day.
The first representatives of the family of adenoviruses were isolated in 1953 by W. Rowe (and others) from the tonsils and adenoids of children, in connection with which they received this name.
To the family Coronaviridae with two genera, Coronavirus (which also includes pathogens of gastroenteritis in children) and Torovirus, include round-shaped viruses with a diameter of 50-220 nm.
Measles (Latin morbilli) is an acute viral disease of mainly childhood, characterized by general intoxication, fever, catarrh of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract and maculopapular rash.
RS virus is one of the most frequent pathogens of ARI in children of the first 2-3 years of life. It was first isolated in 1956 from a chimpanzee suffering from acute respiratory disease, and in 1957 R. Chenok (and others) isolated similar strains from children with acute respiratory disease.
