How a gut virus hijacks mucus production to slip past the body's protective barrier

Among the various viruses that sicken your gut, some at least leave behind a tiny path of cellular destruction as they replicate, implicating the guilty pathogen. Both rotavirus and norovirus invade the small intestine, multiply there and can break through the organ's outer lining as one way of proliferating in the body.

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