Your summer research project is to study the viruses that cause gastroenteritis. You recover a virus from a stool sample and notice that the growth medium on the infected cultures is highly acidic. You find that the viral genome is double-stranded DNA. Of the following, which one is the most appropriate conclusion you could draw?
(A) There is a high likelihood that the agent is a rotavirus.
(B) You need to determine the viral serotype to establish whether the virus was important in causing the disease.
(C) The patient should have been treated with the antiviral drug amantadine to shorten the duration of symptoms.
(D) The virus particle would contain a reverse transcriptase enzyme.