“…There are many reports concerning the predominant growth of adenoviruses in the intestines of apparently healthy humans [3,5,7,10,14,16] and in human cases with enteric disorder [4,6,15]. Even in respiratory diseases with or without enteric symptoms, virus isolation appears to be more favorable from fecal specimens rather than from throat swabs [11,19,21,22]. It is interesting to assume that since our strain K87 has a tissue tropism analogous to many human adenoviruses, information concerning the infectious process and immune mechanisms in human adenovirus infections might be best obtained by studying an analogous experimental model, the strain K87-mouse system.…”