More than 500,000 deaths are attributed to rotavirus gastroenteritis annually worldwide, with the highest mortality in India. Two successive, naturally occurring rotavirus infections have been shown ...

Infective diarrhoea is common among allogeneic stem cell transplant (SCT) recipients, frequently caused by viruses and may be difficult to differentiate from acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).

Rotavirus antigen was detected in the blood of 51 of 57 of children with rotavirus-positive stools, in 8 of 9 of children without diarrhea but with rotavirus-positive stools, in 2 of 17 children with ...

Live pentavalent human–bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine is recommended in the United States for routine immunization of infants. We describe three infants, two with failure to thrive, who had ...

Administering the RotaTeq (RV5; Merck) rotavirus vaccine to infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) appears to be safe, with no confirmed evidence of infection transmission to neighboring ...

In the post-vaccine era, rotavirus has become just another cause of acute gastroenteritis in most cases. But is there anything new in diagnosis and treatment? To Test or Not to Test? Commercially ...

Rotavirus vaccines do not cause significant outbreaks of the disease in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), according to a new national study. The research will be presented at the Pediatric ...

As common infectious diseases go, norovirus is fast and furious. "It usually comes on quickly [and] suddenly with vomiting and diarrhea," says Dr. Jason Newland, a pediatric infectious disease doctor ...

Johanneburg - The current resurgence of the rotavirus may in part be due to a build-up of “susceptible” children or children vulnerable to infection. This is according to Nombuso Shabalala, ...