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ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS OF NEONATES [PDF]

The Lancet, 1977
Faecal specimens from 628 newborn babies in the nurseries of six metropolitan hospitals were examined by electron microscopy for rotaviruses. 304 babies (49%) were found to be excreting virus. All those infected were in five nurseries; viruses were not detected in specimens from the sixth nursery.
Murphy, A.M., Albrey, MaryB., Crewe, EvelynB.   +2 more
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Reinfections and rotavirus serotypes in Belém, Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1988
Repeated infections involving different rotavirus serotypes were detected in four children living in Belém, who were followed up since birth to three years of age. In one child (Reg. 23.983) three successive symptomatic infections (one of them associated
Alexandre da C. Linhares, Yvone B. Gabbay, Ronaldo B. de Freitas, Joana D'arc P. Mascarenhas   +3 more
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Epidemiology and Clinical Characteristics of Rotavirus and Norovirus Infections in Hospitalized Children Less Than 5 Yaers of Age With Acute Gastroenteritis in Tehran, Iran

Acta Medica Iranica, 2020
Acute gastroenteritis is one of the most important causes of death in children in developing countries which cause by different enteropathogens, including bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
Arash Arashkia, Behrooz Nejati, Mahsa Farsi, Somayeh Jalilvand, Alireza Nateghian, Aliakbar Rahbarimanesh, Fereshteh Moshfegh, Nasir Mohajel, Zabihollah Shoja   +8 more
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Clinical Characteristics and Genotypes of Rotaviruses in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2012
There are few reports on the symptoms of rotavirus infections in neonates. This study aims to describe clinical signs of rotavirus infections among neonates, with a particular focus on preterm infants, and to show the distribution of genotypes in a ...
Jung Ok Shim, Dong Woo Son, So-Yeon Shim, Eell Ryoo, Wonyong Kim, Yeon-Chang Jung   +5 more
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Long-term impact of suboptimal rotavirus vaccines on acute gastroenteritis in hospitalized children in Northern Taiwan

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2018
Background/Purpose: Rotavirus vaccines were launched in Taiwan since early 2006. Our study was aimed to figure out long-term extended molecular epidemiology in acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in hospitalized young children after rotavirus vaccination in ...
Wan-Ju Yu, Shih-Yen Chen, Chi-Neu Tsai, Hsun-Ching Chao, Man-Shan Kong, Yi-Jung Chang, Cheng-Hsun Chiu   +6 more
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Economic assessment of childhood rotavirus vaccination in Bangladesh

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2023
Rotavirus is one of the most highly prevalent communicable diseases in Bangladesh. The objective of this study is to evaluate the benefit-cost ratio of childhood rotavirus vaccination program in Bangladesh.
Abdur Razzaque Sarker
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Recent viral pathogen in acute gastroenteritis: a retrospective study at a tertiary hospital for 1 year [PDF]

Korean Journal of Pediatrics, 2016
PurposeViral gastroenteritis among children is mainly caused by rotavirus, norovirus, astrovirus, or adenovirus strains. However, changing socioeconomic conditions and a rotavirus vaccination program may be affecting the prevalence of these viral ...
Hye Il Jin, Yoo Mi Lee, You Jin Choi, Su Jin Jeong   +3 more
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Rotavirus

WikiJournal of Medicine, 2017
Rotavirus is the most common cause of diarrhoeal disease among infants and young children. It is a genus of double-stranded RNA viruses in the family Reoviridae. Nearly every child in the world is infected with rotavirus at least once by the age of five.
Graham Beards
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Monitoring the circulation of rotavirus among children after the introduction of the RotarixTM vaccine in Goiânia, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2011
The epidemiological features of rotavirus A (RVA) infection differ between children from developing and developed countries which could result in differences in vaccine efficacy around the world.
Ana Maria Tavares Borges, Menira Dias e Souza, Fabíola Souza Fiaccadori, Divina das Dores de Paula Cardoso   +3 more
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Investigation of two suspected diarrhoeal-illness outbreaks in Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, South Africa, April–July 2013: The role of rotavirus

Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background: Suspected diarrhoeal-illness outbreaks affecting mostly children 5 years were investigated between May and July 2013 in Northern Cape province (NCP) and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province.
Andronica M. Shonhiwa, Genevie Ntshoe, Noreen Crisp, Ayo J. Olowolagba, Vusi Mbuthu, Maureen B. Taylor, Juno Thomas, Nicole A. Page   +7 more
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