Parechovirus B

Other members of this viral family include poliovirus, Hepatovirus A, and the viruses causing the common cold (rhinovirus).

[11] One of the earliest scientific discoveries regarding Parechovirus B was that infected wild rodents developed diabetes if they were exposed to stress.

This outer shell, or capsid is made up of proteins set up in an icosahedral formation.

However, unlike many other picornaviruses, Pacherovirus B does not completely shut down the host cell's ability to replicate its own genomic information.

Maintaining protein synthesis allows the virus to prevent normal cellular replication, but still allow for ribosome dependent translation to occur.

This image is an example of what an icosahedral capsid protein shell might look like. This is not the exact formation of the Parechovirus B capsid shell, it is a good example, of how the capsid proteins might be assembled.