Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) Photos

Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is one of more than 100 non-polio enteroviruses and a member of the family Picornaviridae.


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Surface view of EV-D68 looking down an icosahedrtal 2-fold axis.image icon[JPG - 150 KB]

Image source: Yue Liu and Michael G. Rossmann, Purdue University
The publication of this study was by Yue Liu, Ju Sheng, Andrei Fokine, Geng Meng, Woong-Hee Shin, Feng Long, Richard J. Kuhn, Daisuke Kihara, Michael G. Rossmann (all at Purdue University)

Surface view of EV-D68 looking down an icosahedrtal 2-fold axis. Note the 5 fold axes to the North and South of the central 2-fold axis and the 3-fold axes to the East and West of the central 2-fold axis. The colors correspond to the distance of the surface from the center of the virus. Red regions are about 155 Å (15nm), and the blue color corresponds to about 130A (13nm) from the center. The colors (red, yellow, green, blue) follow the order of colors in a rainbow. Thus the “highest” (mountainous) region are reddish, whereas the lowest regions are blue (water). A few electron microscopy images of the EV-D68 virus are shown in the black and white background. The possible drug binding site is under the surface shown here.


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This thin section transmission electron micrograph (TEM) reveals numerous, spheroid-shaped Enterovirus-D68 (EV-D68) virions, which are members of the family Picornaviridae.image icon[JPG - 162 KB]

Image source: Cynthia S. Goldsmith and Yiting Zhang, CDC

This photo shows an electron micrograph of a thin section of EV-D68, showing the numerous, spherical viral particles.


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This thin section transmission electron micrograph (TEM) reveals numerous, spheroid-shaped Enterovirus-D68 (EV-D68) virions, which are members of the family Picornaviridae. Note that some of the viral particles appear as if they are “empty”, missing their contents of single-stranded RNA (ssRNA).image icon[JPG - 158 KB]

Image source: Cynthia S. Goldsmith and Yiting Zhang, CDC

This photo shows an electron micrograph of a thin section of numerous, spherical EV-D68 viral particles. Note that some of the viral particles appear as if they are “empty,” missing their contents of single-stranded RNA.