Talk:Rotavirus/Archive 1

older entries
I removed
 * Rotaviruses are wheel-like structures. 

because I think of a wheel as a round flat thing with spokes, whereas the virus are spherical, with three layers. I don't see any resemblance to a wheel. AxelBoldt 15:57, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

When you see fotographs taken by a electron microscope, rotavirus appears as an old carriot wheel, that's why they are called rotavirus (rota=wheel) http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/gastro/rotavirus.htm

_________________________________________________ i am doing a research about rotavirus in syria,,,, and and all that i could find in the net is the death toll,,,,,,so can anyone gives me more specific inf .........

citation fixed
This article was listed as requiring a citation. I believe the citation was listed already in the sources section and I have merely updated the link at the end of the first paragraph. What else needs to happen to get this off this list of articles lacking proper citation? Does that happen automatically?Keesiewonder 02:02, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

DLPs?
What are DLPs? There are many references to them, but no article on Wiki defines what that stands for. DLPs are acronym of Double Layered Particles. Rotavirus are triple layered particles, but when Rotaviruses penetrate trought citoplasmatic membrane or are treated with chelant agents as EDTA, Ca++ is removed and it looses their external layer becoming a DLPs.

Vaccine and the AAPS
The section of vaccines provides a very critical (and slightly out of place) comment from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Suspiciously, the AAPS hypertext linked to the organization's website instead of the Wiki article (I'm about to fix this). I was curious about the AAPS (I'm a med student and I've never heard of them, yet they have such an important sounding name), so I looked up their article and discovered that Time Magazine calls them basically a right-wing, anti-vaccine fringe group. No citation was given for this quotation, and I don't have the ability to search Time archives at home. Next time I get a chance, I'm going to hunt down a citation for this quote on the AAPS entry, and if it is in fact correct, I will delete all mention of the AAPS from this article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Iwhowley (talk • contribs) 19:03, 4 February 2007 (UTC).

Apparently there's been kind of a row about the AAPS on the wiki article; something about Conservapedia accusing Wikipedia of liberal bias. At any rate, it becomes clear that the AAPS is a conservative political organization of minimal impact comprised at least in part of physicians, not an influential medical or scientific association. Their defense of Rush Limbaugh isn't included in Limbaugh's page, and I can see no reason why their criticism of the rotavirus vaccine should be included in the rotavirus page. As such, I deleted the story of their criticism of the rotavirus vaccine.Iwhowley 22:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Albert Kapikian
I suggest that the contents of the stub on this doctor be merged to this article. He was awarded a medal for the development of the first vaccine against rotaviruses licensed in the USA. --Tony Sidaway 14:33, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. Al Kapikian's contribution albeit important to our understanding of rotaviruses has been no greater than that of Mary Estes Thomas Henry Flewett and many others including Ruth Bishop, Ian Holmes  and Roger Glass. Al Kapikian discovered Norwalk virus, he did not discover rotaviruses; they were discovered by Ruth Bishop. In fact it can be argued that Timo Vesikari work on rotavirus vaccines has been of equal importance to Al Kapikian's. It would be misleading to single out Al Kapikian for inclusion on this page. It would be better to improve on his stub.


 * I also disagree. It's fine to mention Kapikian, but his article should not be merged totally into this one. - Draeco 05:26, 6 September 2007 (UTC)


 * The topic has been dormant for 3 months now with no concensus to merge - I removed the merge templates from both pages. - Draeco 05:29, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Intention to edit
I am planning a major edit of this article with the hope of bringing it up to at least Good Article standard. I am well placed to do this, but I work slowly. For my recent edits please see Virus. All comments are more than welcome. User:GrahamColm —Preceding comment was added at 19:45, 2 November 2007 (UTC)